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Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells by Iyer, Pico
by Iyer, Pico | HC | VeryGood
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- En muy buen estado
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- Binding
- Hardcover
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- ISBN
- 9780451493934
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0451493931
ISBN-13
9780451493934
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24038293997
Product Key Features
Book Title
Autumn Light : Season of Fire and Farewells
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
Death & Dying, Asia / Japan, Modern / 21st Century, Personal Memoirs, Literary, Seasons
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Travel, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
15 oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2018-020713
Reviews
"The beloved travel writer and journalist's wistful and conscious memoir filled with musings about home, culture, family, and death . . . With his trademark blend of amiability, lighthearted humor, and profound observations, Iyer celebrates emotional connection and personal expression, and he upholds death as an affirmation of life and all its seasons." --Booklist [starred] "Luminous. . . The book is party a love letter to [his] vibrant [wife] Hiroko, whose clipped English unfolds like haiku, and it's party and homage to the Japanese culture of delicate manners, self-restraint, and acceptance that 'sadness lasts longer than mere pleasure.' The result is an engrossing narrative, a moving meditation on loss, and an evocative, lyrical portrait of Japanese society."-- Publisher's Weekly "A lucid writer with endless curiosity, and a secularist with a searcher's heart. . . Has any travel writer ever written this book? In choosing to exchange life as a perpetual visitor for that of a resident in Japan, Iyer finds a hopeful-making amount of freedom in living in - not just borrowing - daily rituals. . . [ Autumn Light ] is also a tremendously wise book on the late fires of marriage, how moving toward old age, if you're lucky, as he is, a burst of warmth emerges to push you forward into the final step, the journey no one's been able to write about. -- Literary Hub "The acclaimed travel writer and journalist meditates on the impermanence of life. Like many others, Iyer reveres the beauty and portent of autumn. . . Throughout the narrative, the author mixes musings on the ephemerality of existence with scenes of quotidian life. . . a thoughtful work with many poignant moments. . ." -- Kirkus Reviews
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
952/.184
Synopsis
Returning to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law's sudden death, Pico Iyer picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites: going to the post office and engaging in furious games of ping-pong every evening. But in a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead, he comes to reflect on changelessness in ways that anyone can relate to: parents age, children scatter, and Iyer and his wife turn to whatever can sustain them as everything falls away. As the maple leaves begin to turn and the heat begins to soften, Iyer shows us a Japan we have seldom seen before, where the transparent and the mysterious are held in a delicate balance, and where autumn reminds us to take nothing for granted., From one of our most astute observers of human nature, a far-reaching exploration of Japanese history and culture and a moving meditation on impermanence, mortality, and grief. For years, Pico Iyer has split his time between California and Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife, Hiroko, have a small home. But when his father-in-law dies suddenly, calling him back to Japan earlier than expected, Iyer begins to grapple with the question we all have to live with: how to hold on to the things we love, even though we know that we and they are dying. In a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead, this question is more urgent than anywhere else. Iyer leads us through the year following his father-in-law's death, introducing us to the people who populate his days: his ailing mother-in-law, who often forgets that her husband has died; his absent brother-in-law, who severed ties with his family years ago but to whom Hiroko still writes letters; and the men and women in his ping-pong club, who, many years his senior, traverse their autumn years in different ways. And as the maple leaves begin to redden and the heat begins to soften, Iyer offers us a singular view of Japan, in the season that reminds us to take nothing for granted.
LC Classification Number
DS897.N35I94 2019
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