Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells

by Pico Iyer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451493931
• ISBN13: 9780451493934
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.2"