| Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells Contributor(s): Iyer, Pico (Author) |
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ISBN: 1101973463 ISBN-13: 9781101973462 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Asia - Japan - History | Modern - 21st Century - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: 952.184 |
| LCCN: 2021403894 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.55 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |