Autumn Light: Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells
Author(s): Pico Iyer
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 o and we o 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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : 0.168
- : 31 May 2020
- : 1.8 Centimeters X 12.9 Centimeters X 19.7 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Pico Iyer
- : Paperback
- : 2006
- : 952.1
- : 256