Новинки Пико Айера

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.

Pico Iyer is the author of more than a dozen books, translated into twenty-three languages, and he regularly contributes to the New York Review of Books, Granta, the Financial Times and dozens of magazines around the world. His three recent talks for TED have received seven million views so far.
We cherish things, Japan has always known, precisely because they cannot last; it's their frailty that adds sweetness to their beauty.
Returning to his h

Winner of the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2020
How does a sushi bar explain a Japanese poem?
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Why are so many things in Japan the opposite of what we expect?
After thirty-two years in Japan, Pico Iyer knows the country as few others can. In A Beginner's Guide to Japan, he dashes from baseball games to love-hotels and from shopping malls to zen temple gardens to find fresh ways

Pico Iyer is the author of more than a dozen books, translated into twenty-three languages, and he regularly contributes to the New York Review of Books, Granta, the Financial Times and dozens of magazines around the world. His three recent talks for TED have received seven million views so far.
For decades now, Pico Iyer has been based for much of the year in Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wi

Pico Iyer is the author of more than a dozen books, translated into twenty-three languages, and he regularly contributes to the New York Review of Books, Granta, the Financial Times and dozens of magazines around the world. His three recent talks for TED have received seven million views so far.
For decades now, Pico Iyer has been based for much of the year in Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife, Hiroko, share a two-room apartment. But when his father-in-law

Pico Iyer is the author of more than a dozen books which have been translated into twenty-three languages. His four recent TED Talks have received more than eight million views so far. In the summer of 2019, he was Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton, Guest Director of the Telluride Film Festival and the first official writer-in-residence at Raffles Hotel Singapore. An essayist for Time magazine since 1986, Iyer writes regularly for the Financial Times, the New Y

Піко Айєр усе життя подорожував світом — від острова Пасхи до Ефіопії, від Куби до Катманду — й писав про свої подорожі. Посилаючись на життєві шляхи Леонарда Коена, Магатми Ґанді, Марселя Пруста й Емілі Дікінсон, письменник розкриває правду про те, як спокій може загострити наш розум та відкрити шлях до життя, що існує всупереч законам сучасності з її шаленим ритмом. Айєр розмірковує над тим, чому багато хто з нас має величезну потребу відключитися від усього цього. Письменник висловлює думку, що зміцнити людину може прадавнє мистецтво недіяння — переосмислення свого життя й відкриття простої та захопливої радості спокою, що здатна дарувати очищення.

«На якомусь етапі всі ці горизонтальні подорожі світом стають нездатними вдовольнити потребу людини в зануренні у глибини чогось неочікуваного й непростого. Рух набуває найбільшого сенсу, коли обрамлюєш його спокоєм.

Останнім часом на думку мені спадає, що в епоху швидкості ніщо так не збадьорює, як уповільнення руху. В епоху метушні й хаосу немає більшої розкоші, ніж концентрація уваги. І в епоху постійного руху немає нічого більш термінового, ніж не діяння».

Автор этой книги, известный трэвел-журналист и писатель, объездил весь мир и понял, что с него хватит путешествий «по горизонтали»: теперь он приглашает нас в самое важное путешествие в жизни — путешествие в глубины нашего собственного «я». Нашими гидами на этом маршруте станут знаменитый бард Леонард Коэн, духовный лидер буддистов Далай-лама XIV, американская поэтесса Эмили Дикинсон и другие великие путешественники. Незаменимая книга для тех, кто хочет отправиться далеко-далеко… не тронувшись с места и не потратив ни копейки.

One of the best travel writers now at work in the English language brings back the sights and sounds from a dozen different frontiers. A cryptic encounter in the perfumed darkness of Bali; a tour of a Bolivian prison, conducted by an enterprising inmate; a nightmarish taxi ride across southern Yemen, where the men with guns may be customs inspectors or revolutionaries–these are just three of the stops on Pico Iyer’s latest itinerary. But the true subject of Sun After Dark is the dislocations of the mind in transit. And so Iyer takes us along to meditate with Leonard Cohen and talk geopolitics with the Dalai Lama. He navigates the…

Mohawk hair-cuts in Bali, yuppies in Hong Kong and Rambo rip-offs in the movie houses of Bombay are just a few of the jarring images that Iyer brings back from the Far East.