A beginner's guide to Japan : observations and provocations / Pico Iyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iyer, Pico, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iyer, Pico--Travel--Japan.

Iyer, Pico.

Travel.

Japan--Description and travel.

Japan.

Genre:

Travel writing.

Physical Description:

ix, 223 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Several grains of salt

On the streets

At the counter

In the temple

Behind closed doors

Out the window

On the horizon

A letter from a friend.

Other Format:

Online version: Iyer, Pico, author. Beginner's guide to Japan

ISBN:

9780451493958

0451493958

9781524711733

152471173X

OCLC:

1049576033