A Beginner's Guide to Japan. Observations and Provocations




How does a sushi bar explain a Japanese poem? Why do Japanese couples plan matching outfits for their honeymoon? Why are so many things in Japan the opposite of what we expect? After 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.
Перейти к описанию и характеристикам| Издательство | Bloomsbury |
| Страниц | 224 |
| Язык | Английский |
| ISBN | 978-1-5266-1151-2 |
How does a sushi bar explain a Japanese poem? Why do Japanese couples plan matching outfits for their honeymoon? Why are so many things in Japan the opposite of what we expect? After 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.
| Издательство | Bloomsbury |
| Страниц | 224 |
| Язык | Английский |
| ISBN | 978-1-5266-1151-2 |
| Обложка | Мягкий переплёт |
| Бумага | Газетная |
| Полиграфические особенности | Частичная лакировка, тиснение объемное |
| Иллюстрации | Без иллюстраций |
| Размеры | 128 × 15 × 197 mm |
| Вес, г | 170 |