Sun After Dark by Pico Iyer (2004, Hardcover) 
Sun After Dark by Pico Iyer (2004, Hardcover)

 
Sun After Dark by Pico Iyer (2004, Hardcover)

Author: Pico Iyer
Publisher: Random House Inc
Publication Date: 2004-04-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0375415068
ISBN-13: 9780375415067
Product ID: EPID5928636
Description: Pico Iyer travels the world and returns with vivid impressions of what he has seen, including the Dalai Lama, the poverty of Cambodia, and the turn of the 21st century on Easter Island.
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Synopsis
Pico Iyer travels the world and returns with vivid impressions of what he has seen, including the Dalai Lama, the poverty of Cambodia, and the turn of the 21st century on Easter Island.

Details
Publication Date:2004-04-01

Size
Height:8.5 in
Width:5.8 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:15.2 oz

Publisher's Note
Pico Iyer – one of our most compelling and profoundly provocative travel writers – invites us to accompany him on an array of exotic explorations, from L.A. and Yemen to Haiti and Ethiopia, from a Bolivian prison to a hidden monastery in Tibet. He goes to Cambodia, where the main tourist attraction is a collection of skulls from the Khmer Rouge killing fields, and travels through southern Arabia in the weeks before September 11, 2001. He practices meditation with Leonard Cohen and discusses geopolitics with the Dalai Lama, travels to Easter Island and through the imaginative terrains of W. G. Sebald and Kazuo Ishiguro, weaving physical and psychological challenges together into a seamless narrative.

Throughout his travels, the familiar thrill of adventure is haunted by the unsettling questions that arise for Iyer everywhere he goes: How do we reconcile suffering with the sunlight often found around it? How does the foreign instruct the traveler, precisely by discomfiting him? And how does travel take us more deeply into reality, both within us and without? Intensely affecting, Iyer’s explorations are a road map of thinking in new ways about our changing world.

Industry Reviews
"Iyer is a master of the ironic detail....The author excels as well at what might be called 'snapshot exposition': the ability to capture in a few swift images the entire milieu in which he finds himself....Goes where most of us will not go and returns with the dire details."
Kirkus Reviews (02/01/2004)

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