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THE HALF KNOWN LIFE - PICO IYER KARTONIERT (TB)

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.

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