Autumn Light

Auteurs

• Pico Iyer

Paramètres

• 256 pages
• 9 heures de lecture

• Biographies et réflexions
• Cartes et voyages
• Nonfiction
• Philosophie
• Tourisme / Voyage

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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.

Achat du livre

• Année de publication: 2020
• Reliure: (souple)