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A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations - Softcover

Iyer, Pico

 
9781526611512: A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1526611511 ISBN 13: 9781526611512
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

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A playful and profound guidebook full of surprising, brief, incisive glimpses into Japanese culture

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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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A playful and profound guidebook full of surprising, brief, incisive glimpses into Japanese culture

Pico 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 friends in a typical neighbourhood turn every stereotype on its head? His provocations may infuriate you - may even infuriate himself - Iyer confesses in his opening salvo, but maybe it's only by setting its love hotels next to its baseball stadia, its wild fashions against its eighth-century values, that Japan can be made new again for both the first-time visitor and the jaded foreign resident.

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Verlag
Bloomsbury Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1526611511
ISBN 13 
9781526611512
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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