East Wind Melts the Ice - Softcover

Dalby, Liza

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099506947 ISBN 13: 9780099506942

Publisher: Vintage, 2008

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Written from the authors perspective as an anthropologist and gardener, this work presents essays that explore how the Asian calendar has grounded her awareness of time and place. The essays also delve into memories of keeping a pet butterfly, roasting rice cakes with her children, watching whales, and pampering worms to make compost.

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Review:

"As she collects and layers arcane and fascinating pieces of knowledge, she builds her own very personal almanac packed with the wonder of loving wo cultures, the intense inner life of each season, and boundless curiosity of the scholar /child. This is a book to dip in and out of throughout the year." (Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun)

"Liza Dalby's memoir of the seasons is as fresh and captivating as springtime. A very special book." (Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma)

"Dalby is clearly an expert forager, with a love for digging at the roots of things, be they customs or words... As might be expected of a onetime geisha, Dalby has a keen and subtle feel for textures and shadings... There are no heavy-handed 'explanations' of Japan among Dalby's whimsical observations of geese and dance forms. But by picking up details that open out, like a paper fan, she makes us feel that we're seeing Japan from within, yet in a language we can follow" (Time)

"I have never come across a book so eccentric, elegiac and yet still compulsive. It calms, quietens, transports and, ultimately, restores hope that true beauty does not lie in wealth, material acquisition or celebrity, but in the natural world" (Daily Telegraoh)

Book Description:

A guide to serenity through the seasons by the author of Geisha and The Tale of Murasaki

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