An Exquisite Sense of What Is Beautiful Simons J. David
An Exquisite Sense of What Is Beautiful Simons J. David The personal collides with the political in this literary tour-de-force. An eminent British writer in his 70s, Sir Edward Strathairn, returns…
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An Exquisite Sense of What Is Beautiful Simons J. David
The personal collides with the political in this literary tour-de-force. An eminent British writer in his 70s, Sir Edward Strathairn, returns to a resort in the Japanese mountains where, in his youth, he spent a beautiful, snowed-in winter.It was there he wrote his best-selling novel, The Waterwheel, accusing America of being in denial about the horrific aftermath of the Tokyo firebombings and the nuclear destruction at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.London, England, 1952. In the 1950s, an eminent British writer pens a novel questioning the ethics of the nuclear destruction at Hiroshima and Nagasaki--but soon he's trying to outrun his own past.Hakone, Japan, 2003.
After their tumultuous relationship and breakup, he heads for Japan, where he is smitten again as he writes the novel that A young Edward falls in love with an avant-garde American artist, Macy.