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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 I am 16 hours out of sync following last night's flight, and when I draw back our thick gray curtains, I see just a few small white badges of light under a blue-ing sky. I slip on T-shirt and jeans in the dark and shuffle into loafers.
#2 I visit the Deer's Slope neighborhood in Japan. The only house that takes up a full block is the one with the friendly old lady...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
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235 pages ; 22 cm
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"From one of our most astute observers of human nature, a far-reaching exploration of Japanese history and culture and a moving meditation on impermanence, mortality, and grief. For years, Pico Iyer has split his time between California and Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife Hiroko have a small home. But when his father-in-law dies suddenly, calling him back to Japan earlier than expected, Iyer begins to grapple with the question we all have...
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