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The Half Known Life
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ISBN-13:
9780593543962
Veröffentl:
2023
Erscheinungsdatum:
10.01.2023
Seiten:
225
Autor:
Pico Iyer
Gewicht:
218 g
Format:
209x143x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Pico Iyer is the acclaimed and bestselling author of more than a dozen books, translated into twenty-three languages. His journalism has appeared in Time, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, the Financial Times, and more than 250 other periodicals worldwide. His TED talks have been viewed over eleven million times. He divides his time between Japan and a Benedictine hermitage in California.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, TIME MAGAZINE & MORE
Masterful . . . A book of inner journeys told through extraordinary exteriors . . . One of his very best. Washington Post
Dazzling. Time Magazine, Best Books of 2023
From one of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time (Brain Pickings): a journey through competing ideas of paradise to see how we can live more peacefully in an ever more divided and distracted world.
Paradise: that elusive place where the anxieties, struggles, and burdens of life fall away. Most of us dream of it, but each of us has very different ideas about where it is to be found. For some it can be enjoyed only after death; for others, it s in our midst or just across the ocean if only we can find eyes to see it.
Traveling from Iran to North Korea, from the Dalai Lama s Himalayas to the ghostly temples of Japan, Pico Iyer brings together a lifetime of explorations to upend our ideas of utopia and ask how we might find peace in the midst of difficulty and suffering. Does religion lead us back to Eden or only into constant contention? Why do so many seeming paradises turn into warzones? And does paradise exist only in the afterworld or can it be found in the here and now?
For almost fifty years Iyer has been roaming the world, mixing a global soul s delight in observing cultures with a pilgrim s readiness to be transformed. In this culminating work, he brings together the outer world and the inner to offer us a surprising, original, often beautiful exploration of how we might come upon paradise in the midst of our very real lives.
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, TIME MAGAZINE & MORE
Masterful . . . A book of inner journeys told through extraordinary exteriors . . . One of his very best. Washington Post
Dazzling. Time Magazine, Best Books of 2023
From one of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time (Brain Pickings): a journey through competing ideas of paradise to see how we can live more peacefully in an ever more divided and distracted world.
Paradise: that elusive place where the anxieties, struggles, and burdens of life fall away. Most of us dream of it, but each of us has very different ideas about where it is to be found. For some it can be enjoyed only after death; for others, it s in our midst or just across the ocean if only we can find eyes to see it.
Traveling from Iran to North Korea, from the Dalai Lama s Himalayas to the ghostly temples of Japan, Pico Iyer brings together a lifetime of explorations to upend our ideas of utopia and ask how we might find peace in the midst of difficulty and suffering. Does religion lead us back to Eden or only into constant contention? Why do so many seeming paradises turn into warzones? And does paradise exist only in the afterworld or can it be found in the here and now?
For almost fifty years Iyer has been roaming the world, mixing a global soul s delight in observing cultures with a pilgrim s readiness to be transformed. In this culminating work, he brings together the outer world and the inner to offer us a surprising, original, often beautiful exploration of how we might come upon paradise in the midst of our very real lives.