The Sweetness of Life

Françoise Héritier

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English

Penguin
19 November 2014

Biography; Memoirs; Philosophy; Self-help & personal development

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 Fran oise Heritier, 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?

By: Françoise Héritier
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 181mm, Width: 111mm, Spine: 5mm
Weight: 61g
ISBN: 9780718198831
ISBN 10: 0718198832
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 19 November 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Francoise Heritier, an anthropologist, is Emeritus Professor at the College de France and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. She is the author of such highly successful works as Masculin/feminin 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.