| The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home Contributor(s): Iyer, Pico (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679776117 ISBN-13: 9780679776116 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2001 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Social Science | Popular Culture - Technology & Engineering | Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 910.4 |
| LCCN: 99035758 |
| Series: Vintage Departures |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.68" W x 7.94" (0.53 lbs) 322 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |