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

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.

Author: Pico Iyer
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/13/2001
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.68w x 0.68d
ISBN13: 9780679776116
ISBN10: 0679776117
BISAC Categories:
- Travel | Essays & Travelogues
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- Technology & Engineering | Social Aspects

About the Author
Pico Iyer is the author of five previous books, including Video Night in Kathmandu and The Lady and the Monk. He lives in suburban Japan.