Pico Iyer: Autumn Light
Autumn Light
Buch
- Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells
- Bloomsbury UK, 11/2020
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781526611468
- Bestellnummer: 9771882
- Umfang: 235 Seiten
- Gewicht: 209 g
- Maße: 198 x 128 mm
- Stärke: 18 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 15.11.2020
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
We cherish things, Japan has always known, precisely because they cannot last; it's their frailty that adds sweetness to their beauty.Returning to his home in Japan after his father-in-law's sudden death, Pico Iyer soon picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites: going to the post office in the day and engaging in spirited games of ping-pong in the evenings. But in a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honouring the dead, he soon finds himself grappling with the question we all have to live with: how to hold on to the things we love even though we know that they - and we - are dying.
As the maple leaves begin to turn and the heat starts to soften, Iyer shows us a Japan we have seldom seen before through the season that reminds us to take nothing for granted.