The global soul: jet lag, shopping malls, and the search for home
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Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of floatingness. In the transnational village that our world has become, travel and technology fuel each other and us. As Iyer points out, "everywhere is so made up of everywhere else," and our very souls have been put into circulation. Yet even global beings need a home. Using his own multicultural upbringing (Indian, American, British) as a point of departure, Iyer sets out on a quest, both physical and psychological, to find what remains constant in a world gone mobile. He begins in Los Angeles International Airport, where town life — shops, services, sociability — is available without a town, and in Hong Kong, where people actually live in self-contained hotels. He moves on to Toronto, which has been given new life and a new literature by its immigrant population, and to Atlanta, where the Olympic Village inadvertently commemorates the corporate universalism that is the Olympics' secret face. And, finally, he returns to England, where the effects of empire-as-global-village are still being sorted out, and to Japan, where in the midst of alien surfaces, Iyer unexpectedly finds a home. "As a guide to far-flung places, Pico Iyer can hardly be surpassed," The New Yorker has written. In The Global Soul , he extends the meaning of far-flung to places within and all around us.
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Internationalism
Iyer, Pico -- Travel
Nonfiction
Popular culture
Technological innovations -- Social aspects
Travel
Voyages and travels
Internationalism
Iyer, Pico -- Travel
Nonfiction
Popular culture
Technological innovations -- Social aspects
Travel
Voyages and travels
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The global soul : jet lag, shopping malls, and the search for home
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The global soul : jet lag, shopping malls, and the search for home / Pico Iyer
The global soul [electronic resource] : Jet lag, shopping malls, and the search for home. Pico Iyer
The global soul [electronic resource] : Jet lag, shopping malls, and the search for home. Pico Iyer
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jet lag, shopping malls, and the search for home
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Iyer, Pico
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Social aspects
Technological innovations
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Voyages and travels
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Social aspects
Technological innovations
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