{"product_id":"an-exquisite-sense-of-what-is-beautiful-9781913393700","title":"An Exquisite Sense of What is Beautiful","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe personal collides with the political in this literary tour-de-force. 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHakone, Japan, 2003.\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eLondon, England, 1952. \u003c\/b\u003eA young Edward falls in love with an avant-garde American artist, Macy. After their tumultuous relationship and breakup, he heads for Japan, where he is smitten again as he writes the novel that makes him famous. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis is as much a thrilling romance as it is a sensitive exploration of blame, power and guilt in postwar America and Japan. With a narrator whose behavior strikes the national conscience as much as his own, \u003ci\u003eAn Exquisite Sense of What is Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e will stay with readers long after the final page is turned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"J. David Simons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48287132057851,"sku":"9781913393700","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_a9a0a19a-ac7a-443e-8d91-280af235a9bb.jpg?v=1771578784","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/an-exquisite-sense-of-what-is-beautiful-9781913393700","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}