Sun After Dark: Flights Into the Foreign by Pico Iyer
Iyer, one of the best travel writers today, brings back sights and sounds from a dozen different frontiers but his true subject is the dislocations of the mind in transit. On every page of this poetic book he compels us to redraw our world map.
Sun After Dark: Flights Into the Foreign by Pico Iyer
Format: 4th trade paperback printing
Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.
Product dimensions: n/a
Publishing Info: Vintage, New York
Language: English
ISBN - 13: 9781400031030
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.
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