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TONI MORRISON

Francine Prose

JOHN UPDIKE

Ed Park

PICO IYER

paul-auster

nadine-gordimer

Russell Banks

orhan-pamuk

david-grossman

Salman, Rushdie

Harpercollins

A beautifully written book about someone looking for ancient dreams in a strange modern place??los angeles times book review when pico iyer decided to go to kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about zen buddhism from the inside, to get to know kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about japanese culture??not the world of businessmen and production lines, but the traditional world of changing seasons and the silence of temples, of the images woven through literature, of the lunar japan that still lives on behind the rising sun of geopolitical power all this he did and then he met sachiko vivacious, attractive, thoroughly educated, speaking english enthusiastically if eccentrically, the wife of a japanese `salaryman, who seldom left the office before 10 pm, sachiko was as conversant with tea ceremony and classical japanese literature as with rock music, goethe and vivaldi with the lightness of touch that made video night in kathmandu so captivating, pico iyer fashions from their relationship a marvelously ironic yet heartfelt book that is at once a portrait of cross-cultural infatuation??and misunderstanding??and a delightfully fresh way of seeing both the old japan and the very new

The Lady and the Monk

Religion & Spirituality

Buddhism

Penguin??Books

Iyer experiences and depicts these lonely places with the same wit, vitality and insight that distinguish his first two books???and the result is a memorable gallery of countries poignantly isolated in spirit and time???san francisco examiner what does the elegant nostalgia of argentina have in common with the raffish nonchalance of australia? and what do both these countries have in common with north korea? they are all `lonely places cut off from the rest of the world by geography, ideology or sheer weirdness and they have all attracted the attention of pico iyer whether he is documenting the cruising rites of icelandic teenagers, being interrogated by tipsy cuban police or summarizing the plot of bhutans first feature film (`a $6500 spectacular about a star-crossed couple: she dies, he throws himself on the funeral pyre, and both live happily ever after as an ox and a cow), iyer is always uncannily observant and acerbically funny

Falling Off the Top

Travel

Penguin books.India

The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

Reference

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Man Within My Head; The-PB [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2013] Iyer; Pico

Autumn Light

Sun After Dark

Penguin

<p>Title: The Lady and the Monk( Four Seasons in Kyoto) Binding: Paperback Author: PicoIyer Publisher: VintageBooks</p>

The Lady And The Monk - Four Seasons In Kyoto

Asia

Black Swan.

Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World

<p>Edited by the acclaimed author of Video Night in Kathmandu, the latest volume in the annual series presents a wide-ranging anthology of the finest travel writing published over the past year, selected from a wide variety of magazines, newspapers, and Web sites and encompassing contributions by Roger Angell, Joan Didion, John McPee, Tim Cahill, Adam Gopnik, George Packer, and other notable authors.</p>

The Best American Travel Writing 2004 (The Best American Series)

Wilson, Jason

Travel Writing

Houghton/Mifflin

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