![]() ![]() 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. 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. Most of us dream of it, but each of us has very different ideas about where it is to be found. Paradise: that elusive place where the anxieties, struggles, and burdens of life fall away. “Masterful…A book of inner journeys told through extraordinary exteriors…One of his very best.” - Washington Post 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. ![]()
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