Autumn Light
Descriere
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.
Despre autor
Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer, cunoscut sub numele de Pico Iyer, este un eseist și romancier născut în Anglia, cunoscut în principal pentru scrierile sale de călătorii. Este autorul numeroaselor cărți despre traversarea culturilor, inclusiv „Video Night în Kathmandu”, „Doamna și călugărul” și „Sufletul global”. A colaborat la revistele Time, Harper’s, The New York Review of Books și la ziarul The New York Times.
