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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-101101973471
ISBN-139781101973479
eBay Product ID (ePID)11038692476
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Book TitleBeginner's Guide to Japan : Observations and Provocations
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicAsia / Japan, Modern / 21st Century
Publication Year2020
GenreTravel, History
AuthorPico Iyer
Book SeriesVintage Departures Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight7.2 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
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ReviewsWinner of the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year "When one of the best-loved travel writers of our time comes out with a book that is part cheat sheet and part tribute to his home of over 30 years, it's not an understatement to say that it is a must-read" -- Elle "With an elegant, understated manner, Iyer offers poignant reflections on his adopted country and its maddening contradictions and shifting parts . . . Subtle observations [that] reveal a great deal . . . Marvelously nuanced" --Kirkus Reviews "Stitching together observations, statistics, and personal encounters with meditative precision, Iyer depicts a paradoxical culture that finds communion in silence, passion in solitude, and animation in lifeless objects . . . Candid and wholly absorbing, Iyer's inventive guidebook is more than a collection of cultural curiosities--it's a tribute to a nation that prizes social consciousness and sees life in temporality." --Booklist [starred] "Iyer challenges the Western view of the Japanese as impersonal and robotic . . . Striking observations . . . Iyer's Japan is a captivating, and sometimes maddening portrait of a nation unlike any other . . . This meditative and occasionally cheeky guide to Japan from Pico Iyer will delight Japanophiles and armchair travelers alike." -- Shelf Awareness "Having lived in Japan for decades, the widely traveled and erudite, Oxford-born Iyer presents this lovely pocket compendium of oddities and insights of Japanese life . . . Provocative and elegant, Iyer's guide succeeds precisely because it doesn't attempt to be authoritative." --Publisher's Weekly [starred] "Many pleasures to be had . . . Rarely in any writing on Japan is provocation so elegantly and surgically performed . . . A decorous rush of thoughts, observations, unsupported statements, factoids and recollections that ultimately form a shape like paint splashed on the Invisible Man." -- Financial Times "This pleasant read, written with Iyer's usual flair, gives readers a glimpse into Japanese culture, right from the world of anime to age-old traditions. Drawing on readings, reflections and conversations with locals and neighbours, Iyer's latest work is a fresh and profound close look at the Land of the Rising Sun." -- Verve "Iyer's observations and provocations are packaged in spare but descriptive prose, so fitting for the minimalist tradition in Japanese art and literature . . . A Beginner's Guide to Japan does not answer the questions a curious traveler might have about the country. Nor does it intend to. Rather, the book creates more questions and curiosities, inviting readers to experience Japan for themselves, and to become immersed in its enigmatic culture." -- Pop Matters "One of the most profound strengths of A Beginner's Guide to Japan is the way it winds up emphasizing what it is to feel like a beginner as much as it emphasizes Japan itself. Iyer's assertions about Japan--those provocations--seem to come not from some obscured authorial voice, but from a specific human being who is trying to begin an intimate conversation with his reader. It's a conversation that requires not only thought, but a capacity for wonder and close attention." -- Chapter 16, "When one of the best-loved travel writers of our time comes out with a book that is part cheat sheet and part tribute to his home of over 30 years, it's not an understatement to say that it is a must-read" -- Elle "With an elegant, understated manner, Iyer offers poignant reflections on his adopted country and its maddening contradictions and shifting parts . . . Subtle observations [that] reveal a great deal . . . Marvelously nuanced" --Kirkus Reviews "Stitching together observations, statistics, and personal encounters with meditative precision, Iyer depicts a paradoxical culture that finds communion in silence, passion in solitude, and animation in lifeless objects . . . Candid and wholly absorbing, Iyer's inventive guidebook is more than a collection of cultural curiosities--it's a tribute to a nation that prizes social consciousness and sees life in temporality." --Booklist [starred] "Iyer challenges the Western view of the Japanese as impersonal and robotic . . . Striking observations . . . Iyer's Japan is a captivating, and sometimes maddening portrait of a nation unlike any other . . . This meditative and occasionally cheeky guide to Japan from Pico Iyer will delight Japanophiles and armchair travelers alike." -- Shelf Awareness "Having lived in Japan for decades, the widely traveled and erudite, Oxford-born Iyer presents this lovely pocket compendium of oddities and insights of Japanese life . . . Provocative and elegant, Iyer's guide succeeds precisely because it doesn't attempt to be authoritative." --Publisher's Weekly [starred] "Many pleasures to be had . . . Rarely in any writing on Japan is provocation so elegantly and surgically performed . . . A decorous rush of thoughts, observations, unsupported statements, factoids and recollections that ultimately form a shape like paint splashed on the Invisible Man." -- Financial Times "This pleasant read, written with Iyer's usual flair, gives readers a glimpse into Japanese culture, right from the world of anime to age-old traditions. Drawing on readings, reflections and conversations with locals and neighbours, Iyer's latest work is a fresh and profound close look at the Land of the Rising Sun." -- Verve "Iyer's observations and provocations are packaged in spare but descriptive prose, so fitting for the minimalist tradition in Japanese art and literature . . . A Beginner's Guide to Japan does not answer the questions a curious traveler might have about the country. Nor does it intend to. Rather, the book creates more questions and curiosities, inviting readers to experience Japan for themselves, and to become immersed in its enigmatic culture." -- Pop Matters "One of the most profound strengths of A Beginner's Guide to Japan is the way it winds up emphasizing what it is to feel like a beginner as much as it emphasizes Japan itself. Iyer's assertions about Japan--those provocations--seem to come not from some obscured authorial voice, but from a specific human being who is trying to begin an intimate conversation with his reader. It's a conversation that requires not only thought, but a capacity for wonder and close attention." -- Chapter 16
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Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal952.05
SynopsisThe essential introduction to Japan, site of the 2020 Olympics, from "arguably the greatest living travel writer" ( Outside Magazine) After three decades in Japan, Pico Iyer knows the country like few others. In A Beginner's Guide to Japan, he draws on his years of experience--his travels, conversations, readings, and reflections--to illuminate his adopted home like never before. This is a playful and profound guidebook full of surprising, brief, incisive glimpses into Japanese culture. Iyer's adventures and observations as he travels from a meditation hall to a love hotel, from West Point to Kyoto Station, make for a constantly surprising series of provocations guaranteed to pique the interest and curiosity of those who don't know Japan and to remind those who do of the wide range of fascinations the country and culture contain., "Arguably the greatest living travel writer" ( Outside magazine), Pico Iyer has called Japan home for more than three decades. But, as he is the first to admit, the country remains an enigma even to its long-term residents. In A Beginner's Guide to Japan , Iyer draws on his years of experience--his travels, conversations, readings, and reflections--to craft a playful and profound book of surprising, brief, incisive glimpses into Japanese culture. He recounts his adventures and observations as he travels from a meditation hall to a love hotel, from West Point to Kyoto Station, and from dinner with Meryl Streep to an ill-fated call to the Apple service center in a series of provocations guaranteed to pique the interest and curiosity of those who don't know Japan--and to remind those who do of its myriad fascinations.
