Autumn Light: Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells

Author(s): Pico Iyer

Travel

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 o and we o 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.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781526611468
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : 0.168
  • : May 2020
  • : 1.8 Centimeters X 12.9 Centimeters X 19.7 Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Pico Iyer
  • : Paperback
  • : 2006
  • : 256