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Author:
Pico Iyer
Publisher:
Riverhead Books
Date:
January 10, 2023
A journey through competing ideas of paradise to see how we can live more peacefully in an ever more divided and distracted world.
What The Reviewers Say
A mesmerizing collection of essays that vividly recalls sojourns to mostly contentious yet fabled realms, Pico Iyer's The Half Known Life upends the conventional travel genre by offering a paradoxical investigation of paradise.
A culmination of [Iyer's] shifting focus on inner journeys and an expansion of his argument that paradise is rarely found elsewhere. But unlike his slim book of stillness, this is a return to the open road: a grand, full-scale travelogue.
In Iyer’s hands, the search for paradise, the way out of the ego, doubles as an internal journey.
Mr. Iyer’s search for paradise isn’t really about idylls at tropical resorts, though he visits some beautiful places.
