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.
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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Format EPUB ● Pagini 256 ● ISBN 9781526611499 ● Editura Bloomsbury Publishing ● Publicat 2019 ● Descărcabil 3 ori ● Valută EUR ● ID 6976708 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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