A Beginner's Guide to Japan
Observations and Provocations
A playful and profound guidebook full of surprising, brief, incisive glimpses into Japanese culturePico Iyer has been living around Kyoto for more than thirty-two years, but he admits at the outset of this book that he sometimes feels he knows less now than when he arrived. In the constantly surprising pages that follow, he shows how an evening with Meryl Streep, a walk through a ghostly deer park, even a call to the local Apple service centre can open up his adopted home in fresh and invigorating ways.Why does anime make sense in an animist culture? How might Oscar Wilde reveal a culture too often associated with conformity? How can Japanese…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5266-1151-2
- EAN: 9781526611512
- Produktnummer: 32287101
- Verlag: Bloomsbury
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B13.0 cm x D1.7 cm 169 g
- Gewicht: 169
Über den Autor
Pico Iyer is the author of six works of nonfiction and two novels. He has covered the Tibetan question for Time, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and many other publications for more than twenty years. He has been traveling in and around Tibetan communities and the Himalayas for more than thirty years.
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