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Autumn Light: Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells
Autumn Light: Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells

A luminous meditation on grief and impermanence

This feels like sitting beside a wise, observant friend as he quietly unpacks loss, family, and the fragile beauty of ordinary days. Pico Iyer brings Japan alive not as a travel postcard, but as a deeply felt way of seeing mortality and memory. If you like reflective, elegant nonfiction that leaves you calmer, sadder, and more awake to life, this is a beautiful book to sink into.

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ISBN: 9781526611482
Authors: Pico Iyer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Circus
Date of Publication: 2019-04-16
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, Philosophy, Travel
Related Topics: Travelogue, History, Biography, Memoir, Autobiography, Nature, Biography Memoir
Goodreads rating: 3.97
(rated by 1642 readers)

Description

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.
 

A luminous meditation on grief and impermanence

This feels like sitting beside a wise, observant friend as he quietly unpacks loss, family, and the fragile beauty of ordinary days. Pico Iyer brings Japan alive not as a travel postcard, but as a deeply felt way of seeing mortality and memory. If you like reflective, elegant nonfiction that leaves you calmer, sadder, and more awake to life, this is a beautiful book to sink into.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.