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The Half Known Life
- Finding Paradise in a Divided World
- By: Pico Iyer
- Narrated by: Pico Iyer
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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After half a century of travel, from Ethiopia to Tibet, from Belfast to Jerusalem, Pico Iyer asks himself what kind of paradise can ever be found in a world of unceasing conflict. In a spectacular journey, both inward and outward, Iyer roams from crowded mosques in Iran to a film studio in North Korea, from a holy mountain in Japan to the sometimes spooky emptiness of the Australian outback.
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A pleasant walk through someone else’s thoughts
- By Anonymous User on 07-05-23
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The Half Known Life
- Finding Paradise in a Divided World
- Narrated by: Pico Iyer
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 19-01-23
- Language: English
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A Beginner's Guide to Japan
- Observations and Provocations
- By: Pico Iyer
- Narrated by: Sartaj Garewal
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
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Why does anime make sense in an animist culture? How might Oscar Wilde reveal a culture too often associated with conformity? How can Japanese friends in a typical neighbourhood turn every stereotype on its head? His provocations may infuriate you - may even infuriate himself - Iyer confesses in his opening salvo, but maybe it’s only by setting its love hotels next to its baseball stadia, its wild fashions against its eighth-century values, that Japan can be made new again for both the first-time visitor and the jaded foreign resident.
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Disappointed
- By Anonymous User on 04-08-23
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A Beginner's Guide to Japan
- Observations and Provocations
- Narrated by: Sartaj Garewal
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 16-10-19
- Language: English
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The Art of Stillness
- Adventures in Going Nowhere
- By: Pico Iyer
- Narrated by: Pico Iyer
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
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In this age of constant movement and connectedness, perhaps staying in one place is a more exciting prospect, and a greater necessity than ever before. The Art of Stillness paints a picture of why so many have found richness in stillness and what - from Marcel Proust to Blaise Pascal to Phillipe Starck - they’ve gained there.
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enjoyable book to read
- By Alev Haddadieh on 18-07-18
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The Art of Stillness
- Adventures in Going Nowhere
- Narrated by: Pico Iyer
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
- Release date: 04-11-14
- Language: English
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Autumn Light
- Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells
- By: Pico Iyer
- Narrated by: Sartaj Garewal
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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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 dies suddenly, calling him back to Japan earlier than expected, Iyer begins to grapple with the question we all have to live with: how to hold on to the things we love, even though we know that we and they are dying.
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Beautiful Thoughts About Endings
- By Anonymous User on 27-03-24
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Autumn Light
- Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells
- Narrated by: Sartaj Garewal
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 11-10-19
- Language: English
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The Gifts of Reading
- By: Alice Pung, Robert Macfarlane, William Boyd, and others
- Narrated by: Frank Laverty, Gabrielle Glaister, Laila Pyne, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayists and poets. You will see books taking flight in flocks, migrating around the world, landing in people's hearts and changing them for a day or a year or a lifetime. You will see books sparking wonder or anger; throwing open windows into other languages, other cultures, other minds; causing people to fall in love or to fight for what is right.
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The Gifts of Reading
- Narrated by: Frank Laverty, Gabrielle Glaister, Laila Pyne, Rebecca Yeo, Shvorne Marks
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 29-10-20
- Language: English
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The Gate
- By: Natsume Soseki, Pico Iyer - introduction, William F. Sibley - translator
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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A humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of having married without their families' consent, and unable to have children of their own, Sosuke and Oyone find the delicate equilibrium of their household upset by a new obligation to meet the educational expenses of Sosuke's brash younger brother. While an unlikely new friendship appears to offer a way out of this bind, it also soon threatens to dredge up a past that could once again force them to flee the capital.
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The Man Within My Head
- By: Pico Iyer
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
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We all carry people inside our heads - actors, leaders, writers, people out of history or fiction, met or unmet, who sometimes seem closer to us than people we know. In The Man Within My Head, Pico Iyer sets out to unravel the mysterious closeness he has always felt with the English writer Graham Greene; he examines Greene’s obsessions, his elusiveness, his penchant for mystery.
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The Man Within My Head
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 07-03-13
- Language: English
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