EAN: 9780593543962

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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