Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Iyer, Pico |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 3/13/2001 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
From the acclaimed author of
Video Nights in Kathmandu comes this intriguing newbook that deciphers the cultural ramifications of globalization and the rising tideof worldwide displacement.
Beginning in Los Angeles International Airport, wheretown life—shops, services, sociability—is available without a town, Pico Iyer takesus on a tour of the transnational village our world has become. From Hong Kong, wherepeople actually live in self-contained hotels, to Atlanta’s Olympic Village, whichseems to inadvertently commemorate a sort of corporate universalism, to Japan, wherein the midst of alien surfaces his apartment building is called “The Memphis,” Iyerponders what the word “home” can possibly mean in a world whose face is blurred byits cultural fusion and its alarmingly rapid rate of change.
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