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The Global Soul - Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Paperback) Loot Price: R455
Discovery Miles 4 550

The Global Soul - Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Paperback)

Pico Iyer

Series: Vintage Departures

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From the acclaimed author of Video Nights in Kathmandu comes this intriguing new book that deciphers the cultural ramifications of globalization and the rising tide of worldwide displacement.

Beginning in Los Angeles International Airport, where town life?shops, services, sociability?is available without a town, Pico Iyer takes us on a tour of the transnational village our world has become. From Hong Kong, where people actually live in self-contained hotels, to Atlanta's Olympic Village, which seems to inadvertently commemorate a sort of corporate universalism, to Japan, where in the midst of alien surfaces his apartment building is called "The Memphis," Iyer ponders what the word "home" can possibly mean in a world whose face is blurred by its cultural fusion and its alarmingly rapid rate of change.

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Imprint: Random House
Country of origin: United States
Series: Vintage Departures
Release date: March 2001
First published: March 2001
Authors: Pico Iyer
Dimensions: 202 x 131 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 978-0-679-77611-6
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture
Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing > General
Books > Travel > Travel writing > General
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LSN: 0-679-77611-7
Barcode: 9780679776116

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