Sun After Dark: Flights Into the Foreign
by Pico Iyer
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 1400031036
- ISBN 13
- 9781400031030
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Vintage, New York. 4th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.
One of the best travel writers now at work in the English language brings back the sights and sounds from a dozen different frontiers. A cryptic encounter in the perfumed darkness of Bali; a tour of a Bolivian prison, conducted by an enterprising inmate; a nightmarish taxi ride across southern Yemen, where the men with guns may be customs inspectors or revolutionaries–these are just three of the stops on Pico Iyer's latest itinerary.
But the true subject of Sun After Dark is the dislocations of the mind in transit. And so Iyer takes us along to meditate with Leonard Cohen and talk geopolitics with the Dalai Lama. He navigates the Magritte-like landscape of jet lag, "a place that no human had ever been until forty or so years ago." And on every page of this poetic and provocative book, he compels us to redraw our map of the world.
One of the best travel writers now at work in the English language brings back the sights and sounds from a dozen different frontiers. A cryptic encounter in the perfumed darkness of Bali; a tour of a Bolivian prison, conducted by an enterprising inmate; a nightmarish taxi ride across southern Yemen, where the men with guns may be customs inspectors or revolutionaries–these are just three of the stops on Pico Iyer's latest itinerary.
But the true subject of Sun After Dark is the dislocations of the mind in transit. And so Iyer takes us along to meditate with Leonard Cohen and talk geopolitics with the Dalai Lama. He navigates the Magritte-like landscape of jet lag, "a place that no human had ever been until forty or so years ago." And on every page of this poetic and provocative book, he compels us to redraw our map of the world.
Synopsis
Pico Iyer is the author of several books about cultures converging, including Video Night in Kathmandu , The Lady and the Monk , The Global Soul , and, most recently, Abandon . His articles appear often in such magazines as Harper’s, Time, and the New York Review of Books . He lives in suburban Japan.
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- Title
- Sun After Dark: Flights Into the Foreign
- Author
- Pico Iyer
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 4th printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1400031036
- ISBN 13
- 9781400031030
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- This edition first published
- April 12, 2005
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel Literature; Non-Fiction;
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