Autumn Light - Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells

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.

Product details

• Authors: Pico Iyer, Iyer Pico
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781526611468
• ISBN: 978-1-5266-1146-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > Asia; Japan, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Memoirs, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Travel writing, Biography and non-fiction prose, TRAVEL / Asia / East / Japan, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs