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The Open Road
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.95For over three decades, Pico Iyer, one of our most cherished travel writers, has been a friend to the Dalai Lama. Over these years through intimate conversations, he has come to know him in a way that few can claim. Here he paints an unprecedented portrait of one of the most singular figures of our time, explaining the Dalai Lama's work and ideas... more...
Abandon
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 14.00Pico Iyer?s intoxicating new novel is at once a stylish intellectual mystery and a pulse-quickening love story?the love in question being at once sacred and profane. John Macmillan, a classically reticent Englishman who has moved to California to study the poems of the Sufi mystic Rumi, unexpectedly becomes involved in two equally absorbing quests.... more...
Sun After Dark
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.00One 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... more...
Video Night in Kathmandu
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 14.95Mohawk hair-cuts in Bali, yuppies in Hong Kong and Rambo rip-offs in the movie houses of Bombay are just a few of the jarring images that Iyer brings back from the Far East. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Falling Off the Map
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00The author of Video Night in Kathmandu ups the ante on himself in this sublimely evocative and acerbically funny tour through the world's loneliest and most eccentric places. From Iceland to Bhutan to Argentina, Iyer remains both uncannily observant and hilarious. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
The Man Within My Head
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.00We all carry people inside our heads?actors, leaders, writers, people out of history or fiction, met or unmet, who sometimes seem closer to us than people we know. In The Man Within My Head , Pico Iyer sets out to unravel the mysterious closeness he has always felt with the English writer Graham Greene; he examines Greene?s obsessions, his elusiveness,... more...
The Lady and the Monk
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 14.95When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today -- not the world of businessmen and production lines, but the traditional world of changing seasons and the silence... more...
The Global Soul
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 16.00Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of floatingness. In the transnational village that our world has become, travel and technology fuel each other... more...
Cuba and the Night
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.95Having captivated readers with such gems of travel writing as Video Night in Kathmandu, Pico Iyer now presents a novel whose central character is another place: the melancholy, ebullient, and dazzlingly inconsistent island that is Castro's Cuba. "On almost every page you can smell the dust, the cheap perfume and the rum of Havana today, or better still,... more...
Tropical Classical
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 14.95In Tropical Classical the author of Video Nights in Katmandu and The Lady and the Monk visits a holy city in Ethiopia, where hooded worshippers practice a Christianity that has remained unchanged since the Middle Ages. He follows the bewilderingly complex route of Bombay's dabbawallahs , who each day ferry 100,000 different lunches to 100,000... more...









