Description
| Product ID: | 9781526611468 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Autumn Light |
| Subtitle: | Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells |
| Authors: | Author: Pico Iyer |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Biography and non-fiction prose, Travel writing, Prose: non-fiction, Travel writing, Japan |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-04-02 |