Pico Iyer, Author . Knopf $24 (368p) ISBN 978-0-375-41505-0
Framed by the conflict between Islamic and secular Western values, this novel from travel writer, critic and novelist Iyer (Cuba and the Night; The Global Soul; etc.) is part mystery, part spiritual coming-of-age tale and part romance. John...
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Pico Iyer, Author . Knopf $22.95 (223p) ISBN 978-0-375-41506-7
"A trip has really been successful if I come back sounding strange even to myself," writes Iyer (The Global Soul
, Falling off the Map
; etc.) near the beginning of his latest travel book, a superb collection of essays, book reviews and...
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Pico Iyer, Author . Knopf $24 (275p) ISBN 978-0-307-26760-3
This is a brilliant pairing of writer and subject. Iyer has known the Dalai Lama, spiritual and political leader of Tibet, for more than 30 years, thanks to a long-ago connection between the writer's father, an Oxford don born in India, and a...
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Pico Iyer, Author Vintage Books USA $14.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-679-73834-3
Iyer's travelogue about visiting Japan and living in a monastery is subverted by his encounter with a vivacious woman. (Nov.)
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Pico Iyer, Author Vintage Books USA $12.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-679-74612-6
Time journalist Iyer's cosmopolitan travelogue explores the cultural isolation of such regions as North Korea, Iceland and Bhutan. (May)
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Pico Iyer, Author Vintage Books USA $14.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-679-76075-7
Set in contemporary Cuba, travel writer Iyer's fictional debut tells of an uneasy love affair between a cynical American photojournalist and a voluptuous young Cuban woman. (Apr.)
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Pico Iyer, Author Alfred A. Knopf $24.95 (376p) ISBN 978-0-394-55027-5
In 1985, Iyer, a British freelance writer, crisscrossed eastern Asia to view the spread of America's pop-cultural imperialism through 10 of the world's oldest civilizations. With serendipity as his guide, he spent only a few weeks in each country,...
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Pico Iyer, Author Alfred A. Knopf $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-42264-8
Time journalist Iyer ( The Lady and the Monk ) has written on travel before, but in this collection of essays he steps out to face extremes of geography, imagination and culture, visiting places that most of us haven't--Bhutan, North Korea, Iceland...
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Pico Iyer, Author Alfred A. Knopf $22 (233p) ISBN 978-0-679-44052-9
Steeped in the resonant, atmospheric imagery and canny sense of cultural dislocation that distinguish his travel writing, Iyer's (Falling Off the Map) first novel nevertheless succumbs to a slim and schematic plot. As recounted by a cool and callous
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Pico Iyer, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-679-45433-5
A swirl of locations, time zones and cultures marks Iyer's (Video Night in Katmandu) breathless look at today's world, where borders are passed through as quickly as an airport gift shop. To the author, the concept of the global soul is flexible. It
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Pico Iyer. Knopf, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-307-26761-0
Graham Greene isn’t the man essayist and novelist Iyer (Sun After Dark) would choose to take up residence in his head—“I would most likely fasten on someone more dashing, more decisive, less unsettled”—but it’s his lifelong fascination with Greene...
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Edited by Don George and Samantha Forge. Lonely Planet, $15.99 trade paper (318p) ISBN 978-1-74360-360-4
From Cold War Yugoslavia to modern-day Yemen, Lonely Planet’s latest collection of nonfiction travel stories doesn’t leave a stone or continent unturned. Readers will relish Simon Winchester’s boyhood tale of a near-death experience in the Arctic...
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Brad Meltzer, Author, Pico Iyer, Author Rob Weisbach Books $25 (401p) ISBN 978-0-688-15090-7
Just when you thought there were no more changes to be rung on the legal thriller, Meltzer follows up his bestselling inside look at the Supreme Court (The Tenth Justice) with this sleek, suspenseful, only slightly unbelievable story about two young
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Pico Ivyer, Author, Pico Iyer, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-679-45432-8
God is in the details in Iyer's (Falling Off the Map) writing. In this collection of essays and articles spanning the last 15 years, Iyer describes places, people and books, always circling back to the theme of travel and the collision (and...
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Pico Iyer. Knopf, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-451-49393-4
Aging, death, and family fracturing are seen through the lens of Japanese culture in this luminous memoir. Iyer (The Lady and the Monk), a British-Indian-American novelist and Time journalist who lives in Japan with his Japanese wife, Hiroko,...
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Pico Iyer. Knopf, $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-451-49395-8
Having lived in Japan for decades, the widely traveled and erudite, Oxford-born Iyer (The Art of Stillness) presents this lovely pocket compendium of oddities and insights of Japanese life. Save for a few short essays, the book is comprised of...
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Pico Iyer. Riverhead, $26 (240p) ISBN 978-0-593-42025-6
Essayist Iyer (A Beginner’s Guide to Japan) visits regions of religious import in this immersive and profound survey of earthly paradises. “I’d begun to wonder what kind of paradise can ever be found in a world of unceasing conflict—and whether the...
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Pico Iyer. Riverhead, $30 (240p) ISBN 978-0-593-42028-7
Novelist and essayist Iyer (The Half Known Life) shares in this luminous account the lessons that more than 30 years of visiting a Benedectine monastery in California have taught him about silence. Convinced by a friend to visit the retreat in 1991,
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