The global soul : jet lag, shopping malls, and the search for home / Pico Iyer.

Main entry:

Iyer, Pico.

Title & Author:

The global soul : jet lag, shopping malls, and the search for home / Pico Iyer.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2000.

Description:

303 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:
The burning house -- The airport -- The global marketplace -- The multiculture -- The games -- The empire -- The Alien Home.

Summary:

"Pico 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."
"Using his own multicultural upbringing (Indian, American, British) as a point of departure, Iyer sets out on a quest, both physical and psychological, to find what remains constant in a world gone mobile. He begins in Los Angeles International Airport where town life - shops, services, sociability - is available without a town, and in Hong Kong, where people actually live in self-contained hotels. He moves on to Toronto, which has been given new life and a new literature by its immigrant population, and to Atlanta, where the Olympic Village inadvertently commemorates the corporate universalism that is the Olympics' secret face.
And, finally, he returns to England, where the effects of empire-as-global-village are still being sorted out, and to Japan, where in the midst of alien surfaces, Iyer unexpectedly finds a home."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0679454330
9780679454335

Subject:

Iyer, Pico Travel.
Iyer, Pico.
Voyages and travels.
Popular culture.
Internationalism.
Technological innovations Social aspects.
Popular Culture
Voyages.
Culture populaire.
Internationalisme.
Innovations Aspect social.
journeys.
popular culture.
internationalism.
Travel.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286798
Call No.: BIB 227303
Status: Available

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