Winner of the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2020How does a sushi bar explain a Japanese poemWhy do Japanese couples plan matching outfits for their honeymoonWhy are so many things in Japan the opposite of what we expectAfter 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
Winner of the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2020How does a sushi bar explain a Japanese poemWhy do Japanese couples plan matching outfits for their honeymoonWhy are so many things in Japan the opposite of what we expectAfter 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
Pages - 227
Binding - Paperback
Publisher - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication Date - 2020-04-02
ISBN - 9781526611512
Weight - 1048 grams