The Half Known Life by Pico Iyer

The Half Known Life by Pico Iyer

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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.

Pico Iyer is the author of fifteen novels that have been translated into twenty-three languages, and he has contributed to Time, The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and more than 250 other publications throughout the world for more than thirty years. More than ten million people have watched his four recent TED presentations. Picoiyer Journeys can be found at www.picoiyerjourneys.com.

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Titre	The Half Known Life
Auteur	Pico Iyer
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Type de reliure	Hardback
Éditeur	Penguin Putnam Inc
Année de publication	2023-01-10
Nombre de pages	240
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