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9780394280417

Falling Off the Map

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  • ISBN13:

    9780394280417

  • ISBN10:

    0394280415

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1994-04-27
  • Publisher: Vintage
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Summary

The author of Video Night in Kathmandu ups the ante on himself in this sublimely evocative and acerbically funny tour through the world's loneliest and most eccentric places. From Iceland to Bhutan to Argentina, Iyer remains both uncannily observant and hilarious.

Author Biography

Pico Iyer has written nonfiction books on globalism, Japan, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, and forgotten places, and novels on Revolutionary Cuba and Islamic mysticism. He regularly writes on literature for The New York Review of Books, on travel for the Financial Times, and on global culture and the news for Time, The New York Times, and magazines around the world.

Table of Contents

A Prefatory Note
Lonely Placesp. 3
North Korea: My Holiday with Kim Il Sungp. 11
Argentina: La Dolce Vita Meets "The Hyper"p. 24
Cuba: An Elegiac Carnivalp. 48
Iceland: Rock 'n' Roll Ghost Townp. 66
Bhutan: Hidden Inside the Hidden Kingdomp. 84
Vietnam: Yesterday Once Morep. 112
Paraguay: Up for Sale, or Adoptionp. 142
Australia: Five Thousand Miles from Anywherep. 173
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