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.
| ISBN: | 9780451493934 |
| Publication date: | 16th April 2019 |
| Author: | Pico Iyer |
| Publisher: | Knopf an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 235 pages |
| Genres: |
Travel Memoirs General and world history |
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.
Autumn Light features in the following genres: Travel, Memoirs, General and world history
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Autumn Light was written by Pico Iyer and published by Knopf an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Autumn Light has 235 pages