Full name: The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home

Author: Pico Iyer Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Non Fiction, Essays Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 0679776117

From the acclaimed author of Video Night 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. Similar books: Sun After Dark by Pico Iyer Tropical Classical by Pico Iyer The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer by Eric Hansen Fresh-Air Fiend by Paul Theroux AA Gill is Away by A. A. Gill Pleasures and Landscapes by Sybille Bedford Sunrise With Seamonsters by Paul Theroux Along the Edge of America by Peter Jenkins Bad Trips by Keath Fraser The Rough Guide to First-Time Around the World by Doug Lansky Roads by Larry McMurtry Thrilling Cities by Ian Fleming Vagabonding by Rolf Potts Charles Kuralt's America by Charles Kuralt Equator by Thurston Clarke Around the World in 80 Days by Michael Palin Full Circle by Michael Palin What Am I Doing Here? by Bruce Chatwin Falling Off the Map by Pico Iyer Words of Mercury by Patrick Leigh Fermor