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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.
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Autumn Light, Pico Iyer
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2020
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- Titel
- Autumn Light
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Pico Iyer
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2020
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 256
- ISBN10
- 1526611465
- ISBN13
- 9781526611468
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Karten & Reisen, Wahre Geschichten, Biografien, Reisen, Philosophisches Thema, Autobiografien & Memoiren, Japan
- Bewertung
- 3,8 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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.