Autumn Light
Season of Fire and Farewells
Returning to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law's sudden death, Pico Iyer picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites: going to the post office and engaging in furious games of ping-pong every evening. But in a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead, he comes to reflect on changelessness in ways that anyone can relate to: parents age, children scatter, and Iyer and his wife turn to whatever can sustain them as everything falls away. As the maple leaves begin to turn and the heat begins to soften, Iyer shows us a Japan we have seldom seen before, where the transparent and the mysterious are…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-451-49393-4
- EAN: 9780451493934
- Produktnummer: 27403831
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H21.8 cm x B15.1 cm x D2.5 cm 408 g
- Gewicht: 408
Über den Autor
Pico Iyer is the author of more than a dozen books, translated into twenty-three languages. In recent years, he has given four talks for TED, and they have received more than nine million views so far. www.picoiyerjourneys.com
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