{"product_id":"an-exquisite-sense-of-what-is-beautiful","title":"An Exquisite Sense of What is Beautiful","description":"\u003cp\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\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\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\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\u003e\u003cb\u003eLondon, England, 1952.\u003c\/b\u003e A 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\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\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fiction, Literary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Saraband\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781913393700\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Saraband","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £1.86","offer_id":47919144894641,"sku":"SB-1913393704-C3","price":1.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1913393704.jpg?v=1789690512","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/an-exquisite-sense-of-what-is-beautiful","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}