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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.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing; 1st edition (2 April 2020)
Language : English
Paperback : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 1526611465
ISBN-13 : 978-1526611468
Dimensions : 12.8 x 2.6 x 19.7 cm
