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A Beginner's Guide to Japan

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By  Pico Iyer

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£ 8.76

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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 show more

Book Details
EAN:
9781526611512
Binding:
Paperback / softback
Weight(g):
258g
Dimensions(mm):
138 x 198 x 12g
Publication Date:
2020-04-02
Readership:
General (US: Trade)
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
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