Beginners Guide to Japan - Softcover

Pico Iyer

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9781526611512: Beginners Guide to Japan
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1526611511 ISBN 13: 9781526611512
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2020

Synopsis

Winner of the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2020

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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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1526611511
ISBN 13 
9781526611512
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
227
Rating
  • 3.81 out of 5 stars
    2,155 ratings by Goodreads

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