A Beginner's Guide to Japan - Observations and Provocations (Paperback)
Pico IyerHow does a sushi bar explain a Japanese poem?
Why do Japanese couples plan matching outfits for their honeymoon?
Why are so many things in Japan the opposite of what we expect?
After thirty-two years in Japan, Pico Iyer knows the country as few others can. In A Beginner's Guide to Japan, he dashes from baseball games to love-hotels and from shopping malls to zen temple gardens to find fresh ways of illuminating his adopted home. Playful and surreptitiously profound, this is a guidebook to a Japan few have ever seen before.
'Rarely in any writing on Japan is provocation so elegantly and surgically performed' Financial Times
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How does a sushi bar explain a Japanese poem?
Why do Japanese couples plan matching outfits for their honeymoon?
Why are so many things in Japan the opposite of what we expect?
After thirty-two years in Japan, Pico Iyer knows the country as few others can. In A Beginner's Guide to Japan, he dashes from baseball games to love-hotels and from shopping malls to zen temple gardens to find fresh ways of illuminating his adopted home. Playful and surreptitiously profound, this is a guidebook to a Japan few have ever seen before.
'Rarely in any writing on Japan is provocation so elegantly and surgically performed' Financial Times
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Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Release date | April 2020 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
Authors | Pico Iyer |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 240 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5266-1151-2 |
Barcode | 9781526611512 |
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LSN | 1-5266-1151-1 |
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