[PDF.99dh] The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home

The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home

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 | #294172 in Books |  Vintage |  2001-03-13 |  2001-03-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.96 x.70 x5.10l,.53 | File type: PDF | 302 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Not as good as it should be|By Tyler Wigg Stevenson|Iyer's romantic vision of the "Global Soul" (i.e., Iyer and people like him) is insufficiently self-critical in respects to its essential economic location. What Iyer imagines as cosmopolitan seems to boil down to those who are wealthy enough to occupy a rarified socio-economic -- and hence, geographic -- location. Rather than|.com |Pico Iyer's book of essays about international locales contends that the modern world-scurrying citizen, pushed by business demands or political migrations, can easily lose both roots and sense of home. Airports have morphed into cities where scores of la

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...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home   |  Pico Iyer. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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