 Synopsis
This book is the definitive guide to why Japanese women don't
get SAD and how we can live more like them throughout the year.
East Wind Melts the Ice will help you spring clean your lifestyle,
feng shui your house and most importantly feng shi your mind.
This book will encourage you to take the time our of your hectic
nautre and the seasons, Liza Dalby talks about the importance
of buying foods in season rather than ones air freighted in from
around the workd, a new phenomenon in the United Kingdom. As the
first and only practising Geisha who lives in the West, Liza Dalby
has a lot to teach us about the holistic side of life and a completely
new way of living. This is an uplifting and provocative book,
perfect for bedtime reading.
Liza Dalby takes the 72 seasonal units of an ancient Chinese almanac
as seeds, and grows them into a year's journal, entwining personal
experience, natural phenomena, and ruminations on the cultural
aesthetics of China, Japan, and the West. Written from Dalby's
perspective, the essays explore how the Asian calendar har grounded
her awareness of time and place. Drawing connections between philology
and nature, memory and experience, they draw on her experiences
over the years she spent in Japan where she first went to live
at age 16.
Liz Dalby is an anthropologist specialisinJapanese culture and
the only Westerner to have become a geisha. She is the author
of Tale of Murasaki in 2004 and Geisha, both of which were published
to great literary acclaim. Liza served as geisha consultant to
Rob Marshall and the producers of the film of Arthur Golden's
novel, Memoirs of a Geisha. She lives in Califonia with her husband
and three children
Published on 24th April, 2008 by Vintage price £8.99
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