The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise by Pico Iyer (English) Hardcover Book

Description: The Half Known Life by 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"-- FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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, its 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 Lamas 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 souls delight in observing cultures with a pilgrims 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. Author Biography 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 than 250 other periodicals worldwide. His TED talks have been viewed over eleven million times. He divides his time between Japan and a Benedictine hermitage in California. Review Praise for The Half Known Life: "Pico Iyer has done the impossible with this book. . . This is a singular offering of magnetic story, deep thinking, truth telling, and spiritual refreshment for our tumultuous young century." —New York Times bestselling author Krista Tippett "In elegant and ecstatic prose, Pico Iyer uncovers our wonderful capacity for hope, wearing his erudition so lightly. I was revitalized by this book." —New York Times bestselling author Katherine May "To step into The Half Known Life feels both a privilege and a necessity. . . Iyer is more than a guide or a compatriot in an unfamiliar land: in the inward journey to lucidity he is a companion of our own searching minds." —PEN Award winner Yiyun Li "In this brilliantly told Buddhist parable, Pico Iyer takes the reader from London to Santa Barbara, Jerusalem to Sri Lanka, Japans Bridge of Heaven to Varanasi, exploring the insatiable human longing for Paradise while acutely observing—with irony, wit, and empathy—the paradoxes inherent in actual experience." —New York Times bestselling author Dr. Elaine Pagels "Nothing less than a guided tour of the human soul. Filled with hope, wisdom, and extraordinary tenderness, this is a book not only for the ages, but for our very specific, very troubled age. A masterpiece." —New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert "This book combines the wisdom of a lifelong traveler with the insights of a dazzling range of spiritual traditions, sparking our enthusiasm for more adventures: both around the world and inside the soul." —Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser "One of his very best… A work of spiritual evolution built around vivid, discernible images of real places by a master of description… A masterful merging of Iyers past and current concerns, a book of inner journeys told through extraordinary exteriors." —Washington Post "Reading Mr. Iyers book in the depth of winter, in a troubled world, its heartening to think that paradise—or at least a glimpse of it—might be available from where we sit." –Wall Street Journal "From one of the most perceptive writers of our times, this one brings forth a lifetime of explorations to upend our ideas of utopia and ask how we might find peace in the midst of difficulty and suffering. Could there be anything better to pick at the start of the year?" –Harpers Bazaar "Mesmerizing… In Iyers riveting anecdotes, a sudden intimacy with death brings one closer to glimpses of paradise." – NPR "In Iyers hands, the search for paradise, the way out of the ego, doubles as an internal journey… This elliptical odyssey, graced with occasional notes of light, finds itself by dwelling in the shadows… His book has the soft ring of a classic Buddhist meditation strategy: In order to understand the emptiness of the ego, one must first find the self as it appears." –New York Times Book Review "Everywhere Pico Iyer travels his keen vision allows him to see both ravishing beauty and profound flaws… His wide-ranging quest is a useful reminder that the journey often is more absorbing than any destination… Pico Iyer elegantly recounts some of his exotic travels and reflects on the search for an elusive land of bliss." —Shelf Awareness Review Quote Praise for The Half Known Life : "Nobody knows the world better than Pico Iyer. In this soulful memoir, he journeys to quite literally to the ends of the earth searching for answers about the nature of humanity, and pondering our tenuous future on this beautiful, fragile planet. What he has written is nothing less than a guided tour of the human soul. Filled with hope, wisdom, and extraordinary tenderness, this is a book not only for the ages, but for our very specific, very troubled age. A masterpiece." -- #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert "Pico Iyer has inspired so many to take to the road, to see for ourselves the mountains and mosques his prose makes so irresistible. And as he shows us this outer world, he shows the inner world, too: the ways that people journey inside in search of truth and beauty. This book combines the wisdom of a lifelong traveler with the insights of a dazzling range of spiritual traditions, sparking our enthusiasm for more adventures: both around the world and inside the soul." --Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser Praise for Pico Iyer: "One of our most beloved and eloquent translators of the modern rediscovery of inner life." --Krista Tippett "One of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time." --Maria Popova, Brain Pickings "Iyer is an admirable example of a citizen of the world--an erudite, open-minded cosmopolitan." -- New Statesman "Pico Iyers remarkable talent is enough justification for going anywhere in the world he fancies." -- Washington Post Details ISBN059342025X Author Pico Iyer Short Title The Half Known Life Pages 240 Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 059342025X ISBN-13 9780593420256 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2023-01-10 Subtitle In Search of Paradise Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S. Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2023-01-10 NZ Release Date 2023-01-10 US Release Date 2023-01-10 UK Release Date 2023-01-10 DEWEY 203.5 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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