The Sweetness of Life
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- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
19 November 2014
Summary
This beautiful list of the daily moments that make life worth living asks us to reconnect with a different sense of worth. If you assume an average life expectancy of 85 years, and deduct the hours we spend daily on sleeping, shopping, eating, working, tending to our relationships and on everything else that is obligatory, then how much time is left for the average person to enjoy those activities that are the sweetness of life? For Françoise Héritier, it is those activities, those moments that make up pure sensuality, the actual experience of humanity. These are the moments we all cherish: wild laughter, coffee in the sun, the bliss of fresh autumn evenings, running in warm rain, long conversations at twilight, kisses on the back of the neck, the moment when all nature falls silent. What about you, what would you miss if all this had to disappear from your life forever?
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780718198831 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0718198832 |
| Author: | Françoise Héritier |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 19 November 2014 |
| Weight: | 63g |
| Dimensions: | 5mm x 111mm x 180mm |
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Critics Review
A series of perceptions, sensations, eddies, and happiness of writing that gives a real intensity to the existence … a true wonder
A series of perceptions, sensations, eddies, and happiness of writing that gives a real intensity to the existence … a true wonder – Laure Adler
Françoise Héritier
Françoise Héritier, an anthropologist, is Emeritus Professor at the Collège de France and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. She is the author of such highly successful works as Masculin/féminin and De la violence, translated into more than ten languages. Le Sel de la Vie (translated into English as The Sweetness of Life) is a French bestseller.
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