The Half Known Life, Pico Iyer

Автор: Iyer Pico
Название: The Man Within My Head
ISBN: 0307387569 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307387561
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 9810.00 T
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Автор: Iyer, Pico
Название: Sun after dark
ISBN: 074757670X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780747576709
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: A collection of travel writing from the author of "Video Night in Kathmandu".

Автор: Iyer Pico
Название: A Beginner`s Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations
ISBN: 0451493958 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451493958
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 15290.00 T
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Описание: From the acclaimed author of The Art of Stillness--one of our most engaging and discerning travel writers--a unique, indispensable guide to the enigma of contemporary Japan.

After thirty-two years in Japan, Pico Iyer can use everything from anime to Oscar Wilde to show how his adopted home is both hauntingly familiar and the strangest place on earth. "Arguably the world's greatest living travel writer" (Outside). He draws on readings, reflections, and conversations with Japanese friends to illuminate an unknown place for newcomers, and to give longtime residents a look at their home through fresh eyes. A Beginner's Guide to Japan is a playful and profound guidebook full of surprising, brief, incisive glimpses into Japanese culture. Iyer's adventures and observations as he travels from a meditation-hall to a love-hotel, from West Point to Kyoto Station, make for a constantly surprising series of provocations guaranteed to pique the interest and curiosity of those who don't know Japan, and to remind those who do of the wide range of fascinations the country and culture contain.

Автор: Iyer Pico
Название: Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells
ISBN: 1101973463 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781101973462
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Описание: Returning to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law's sudden death, Pico Iyer picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites: going to the post office and engaging in furious games of ping-pong every evening. But in a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead, he comes to reflect on changelessness in ways that anyone can relate to: parents age, children scatter, and Iyer and his wife turn to whatever can sustain them as everything falls away. As the maple leaves begin to turn and the heat begins to soften, Iyer shows us a Japan we have seldom seen before, where the transparent and the mysterious are held in a delicate balance, and where autumn reminds us to take nothing for granted.

Автор: Iyer, Pico
Название: Beginners guide to japan a
ISBN: 1526611511 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781526611512
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Цена: 10880.00 T
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Описание: Winner of the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2020How does a sushi bar explain a Japanese poem?Why do Japanese couples plan matching outfits for their honeymoon?Why are so many things in Japan the opposite of what we expect?After thirty-two years in Japan, Pico Iyer knows the country as few others can. In A Beginner's Guide to Japan, he dashes from baseball games to love-hotels and from shopping malls to zen temple gardens to find fresh ways of illuminating his adopted home. Playful and surreptitiously profound, this is a guidebook to a Japan few have ever seen before.

'Rarely in any writing on Japan is provocation so elegantly and surgically performed' Financial Times

Автор: Iyer Pico
Название: Autumn Light
ISBN: 1526611473 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781526611475
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Цена: 24640.00 T
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Автор: Pico Iyer
Название: Global Soul
ISBN: 0747549702 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780747549703
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Цена: 5930.00 T
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Автор: Pico Iyer
Название: Video Night in Kathmandu
ISBN: 0747551200 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780747551201
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Цена: 16820.00 T
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Описание: Why did Dire Straits blast out over Hiroshima, Bruce Springsteen over Bali and Madonna over all? The author was eager to learn where East meets West, how pop culture and imperialism penetrated through the world`s most ancient civilisations. Then, the truths he began to uncover were more startling, subtle, and more complex than he ever anticipated.

Автор: Iyer Pico
Название: The Man Within My Head
ISBN: 030726761X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307267610
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 15910.00 T
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Описание: We all carry people inside our heads--actors, leaders, writers, people out of history or fiction, met or unmet, who sometimes seem closer to us than people we know.
In "The Man Within My Head," Pico Iyer sets out to unravel the mysterious closeness he has always felt with the English writer Graham Greene; he examines Greene's obsessions, his elusiveness, his penchant for mystery. Iyer follows Greene's trail from his first novel, "The Man Within," to such later classics as "The Quiet American" and begins to unpack all he has in common with Greene: an English public school education, a lifelong restlessness and refusal to make a home anywhere, a fascination with the complications of faith. The deeper Iyer plunges into their haunted kinship, the more he begins to wonder whether the man within his head is not Greene but his own father, or perhaps some more shadowy aspect of himself.
Drawing upon experiences across the globe, from Cuba to Bhutan, and moving, as Greene would, from Sri Lanka in war to intimate moments of introspection; trying to make sense of his own past, commuting between the cloisters of a fifteenth-century boarding school and California in the 1960s, one of our most resourceful explorers of crossing cultures gives us his most personal and revelatory book.

Автор: Pico Iyer
Название: The Open Road
ISBN: 0747597448 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780747597445
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: One of the most acclaimed and perceptive observers of globalism and Buddhism now gives us the first serious consideration-for Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike-of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama`s work and ideas as a politician, scientist, and philosopher.