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Autumn Light - Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells (Paperback)
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Autumn Light - Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 390
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For decades now, Pico Iyer has been based for much of the year in
Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife, Hiroko, share a
two-room apartment. 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
honouring the dead, this question has a special urgency and
currency. Iyer leads us through the autumn 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.
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