Isbn: 9780593543962 - the half known life: in search of paradise (9 Ergebnisse)

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Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A very clean copy. A reflective exploration of humanity's enduring search for paradise and the different forms that ideal can take. Drawing on decades of travel through places including Iran, North Korea, Kashmir and Japan, the author considers religious visions of heaven, political utopias and the desire to escape conflict and suffering. Combining travel writing with personal and philosophical reflection, the book asks whether paradise is a destination to be discovered or something that can be found within the uncertainties and difficulties of ordinary life.…

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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Pico Iyer is the acclaimed and bestselling author of more than a dozen books, translated into twenty-three languages. His journalism has appeared in Time, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, the Financial Times, and more t.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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 (BrainPickings): 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.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -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" (BrainPickings): 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 midstor just across the oceanif 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.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 225 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. The Half Known Life | In Search of Paradise | Pico Iyer | Taschenbuch | 240 S. | Englisch | 2023 | Penguin LLC US | EAN 9780593543962 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, 22083 Hamburg, gpsr[at]petersen-buchimport[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -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" (BrainPickings): 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 midstor just across the oceanif 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. 225 pp. Englisch. …