Autumn Light

Autori

• Pico Iyer

Parametri

• 256 pagine
• 9 ore di lettura

• Biografie e pensieri
• Filosofia
• Mappe e viaggi
• Saggistica
• Turismo / Viaggi

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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.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2020

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