The Half Known Life: Finding Paradise in a Divided World - Couverture souple

Iyer, Pico

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1526655020 ISBN 13 : 9781526655028

Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Synopsis

'Nothing less than a guided tour of the human soul ... A masterpiece' Elizabeth Gilbert
'A work of spiritual evolution [and] inner journeys told through extraordinary exteriors' Washington Post
One of our most perceptive travel writers embarks on an exploration of the world's holiest places and where we might find paradise on Earth.

It's so easy, I thought, to place Paradise in the past or the future - anywhere but here.

After half a century of travel, Pico Iyer asks himself what kind of paradise can ever be found in a world of unceasing conflict. In a spectacular journey, both inward and outward, he roams the globe from Jerusalem to Belfast to North Korea, from crowded mosques in Iran to a holy mountain in Japan. By the end, he has upended any of our expectations and dared to suggest that we can find paradise right in the heart of our angry and confused world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Pico Iyer is the author of six works of nonfiction and two novels. He has covered the Tibetan question for Time, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and many other publications for more than twenty years. He has been traveling in and around Tibetan communities and the Himalayas for more than thirty years.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Nothing less than a guided tour of the human soul ... A masterpiece' Elizabeth Gilbert



One of our most perceptive travel writers embarks on an exploration of the world's holiest places and where we might find paradise on Earth.



It's so easy, I thought, to place Paradise in the past or the future - anywhere but here.



After half a century of travel, from Ethiopia to Tibet, from Belfast to Jerusalem, Pico Iyer asks himself what kind of paradise can ever be found in a world of unceasing conflict. In a spectacular journey, both inward and outward, Iyer roams from crowded mosques in Iran to a film studio in North Korea, from a holy mountain in Japan to the sometimes spooky emptiness of the Australian outback.



At every stop, he makes connections with unexpected strangers - mystics and taxi drivers and fellow travellers - and draws on his own memories, of time spent in a Benedictine monastery high above the Pacific, of regular travels with the Dalai Lama, of hearing his late mother speak of sunlit moments in pre-Partition India.



By the end, he has upended many of our expectations and dared to suggest that we can find paradise right in the heart of our angry, confused and divided world.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1526655020
• ISBN 13: 9781526655028
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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