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The half known life : in search of paradise / Pico Iyer.
"A journey through competing ideas of paradise to see how we can live more peacefully in an ever more divided and distracted world"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780593420256 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 225 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2023.
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| Subject: | Paradise. Spiritual life. Travel > Religious aspects. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 203.5 Iye | 31681010305787 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
From Iran to North Korea, from the Dalai Lamaâs Himalayas to the ghostly temples of Japan, this thought-provoking book, tracing the authorâs almost 50-year journey around the world, offers a surprising, original, often beautiful exploration of how we might come upon paradise in the midst of our lives. - Baker & Taylor
"A journey through competing ideas of paradise to see how we can live more peacefully in an ever more divided and distracted world"-- - Penguin Putnam
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, TIME MAGAZINE & MORE
âMasterful . . . A book of inner journeys told through extraordinary exteriors . . . One of his very best.â âWashington Post
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âDazzling.â âTime Magazine, Best Books of 2023
From âone of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our timeâ (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, itâs in our midstâor just across the oceanâif only we can find eyes to see it.
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Traveling from Iran to North Korea, from the Dalai Lamaâs 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 â or can it be found in the here and now?
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For almost fifty years Iyer has been roaming the world, mixing a global soulâs delight in observing cultures with a pilgrimâs 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.
