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# Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells

**Brand:** pico iyer
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Autumn Light: A profound assessment of Japan's most important season
  

*by M***D on Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2019*

Pico Iyer's "Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells" is both remarkable and unusual.  On the one hand, it is  a sublime meditation on autumn, Japan's quintessential season of perceived loss, longing, and loneliness. On the other, it is an unflinching autobiography of recent years as Iyer and his wife transition into late middle age at their home in Nara, Japan, and their parents into the debility of advanced age.  Binding together these two themes are the parallels between the manner in which the Japanese view the autumn season of the year and of one's life.On a first reading, some transitions in the book can seem abrupt.  On pages 13-14, for example, two wonderful  paragraphs introducing the cultural importance of autumn in Japan are presented amid a discussion about the death of Iyer's father-in-law.  The book's narrative use of brief vignettes with frequently changing foci, when accompanied by the poetic imagery that is a major strength of Iyer's writing, characterize  Japan's  "zuihitsu" style of writing.  This style is linked above all but not exclusively to diaries written by court ladies in the ancient Nara and Heian periods, and its use by Iyer reflects how much his 30-years-plus residence in Japan has influenced him.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    An elegy to the passage of time and the passing of loved ones
  

*by E***D on Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2019*

Many writers who yearned to roam the world in our youths were inspired by Pico Iyer's "Video Nights in Kathmandu" and "The Lady and the Monk." The renowned travel journalist Iyer was living our dream job, and we read his work with envy and admiration. A generation later, we still can dream after reading "Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells," a memoir and coda that bring his brilliant career full circle."Autumn Light" is a moving elegy on the passage of time and the passing of loved ones, including Iyer's Japanese father-in-law. Iyer's wife, Hiroko, calls this book a "little no-action movie" with "nothing happening," but that is only partly true. Based in Japan, this memoir doesn't follow the usual narrative arc. Nor are there crimes, disasters, or superheroes. Not even a climax.Instead, the tale unfolds in images, vignettes, and character sketches. Some are lyrical and poetic, others journalistic and novelistic. All build on Iyer's pilgrimage of sorts in the fall of his life. For reflective readers, Iyer's Basho-like moments of clarity, his powers of observation and description, his cultural insights into his family and life, are more compelling than any formulaic drama.This book especially will move readers at the cusp of their next lives. Coincidentally, last October I visited Japan to see the temples and parks in Kyoto and Nara that Iyer writes about in "Autumn Light." If you flee the hordes of tourists, you can meander in these ancient cities on day-long strolls that come close to walking meditations. Japanese call this kind of journey "inochi no sentaku," or a "cleansing of life." Such travel and soul-searching cleanse the mind and spirit.For those who cannot globe-trot Iyer-style to faraway lands, reading "Autumn Light" is the next best thing.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    This is a contemplative book that gives us glimpses of the beauty and power of Autumn.
  

*by B***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2022*

I first bought this book because I love autumn and Pico Iyer's writing.  This copy was a gift for friends who had also lived in Japan for a couple of years.  This contemplative book summoned powerful, often inexplicable feelings from that most influential time in our lives.  As we have grown older, our feelings about the seasons have changed.  Pico Iyer stirs powerful memories, reminding us that we are not alone and of the joys of living in that culture.

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