 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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