Autumn Light: Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells

Autumn Light: Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells
ISBN-10
152661149X
ISBN-13
9781526611499
Series
Autumn Light
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
257
Language
English
Published
2019-04-16
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Author
Pico Iyer

Description

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.

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