An eminent British writer returns to the resort hotel in the Japanese mountains where he once spent a beautiful, snowed-in winter. It was there he fell in love and wrote his best-selling novel, the waterwheel, accusing A...An eminent British writer returns to the resort hotel in the Japanese mountains where he once spent a beautiful, snowed-in winter. It was there he fell in love and 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.