Sun After Dark book by Pico Iyer
By Pico IyerOne 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.
Book details
- Hardcover
- 223 pages
- English
- 0375415068
- 9780375415067
About Pico Iyer
pico iyer is a british-born essayist and novelist of indian descent. as an acclaimed travel writer, he began his career documenting a neglected aspect of t Read More about Pico Iyer
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