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  • Published: 19 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9780718198831
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $22.99

The Sweetness of Life



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?

  • Published: 19 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9780718198831
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $22.99

Praise for The Sweetness of Life

A series of perceptions, sensations, eddies, and happiness of writing that gives a real intensity to the existence . . . a true wonder

Laure Adler