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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0679454330
ISBN-13: 9780679454335
Feb 2000
Publisher: Random House Inc
303 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Iyer's essays, one collection among many travelogues from this American-Indian-British writer, is a meditation on house and home from the plastic couches of airports around the world. Iyer is a sophisticate of the global community himself, and uses his encounters to outline the displacement that occurs in the transition to a global community. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000.
| Size | | Length: | 303 pages | | Height: | 8.8 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 18.4 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Suddenly, the flames were curling 70 feet above my living room, whipped on by the 70-mile-per-hour winds that get them ripping across the dry bush like maddened horses."
Industry Reviews
"Drawing on a vast range of experiences and entertaining (and sometimes harrowing) anecdotes, Iyer has fashioned an inspiring and optimistic book about the future of the new global culture and the lives of the individuals who live in it."
Stevenson
"[THE GLOBAL SOUL is] quite a tour, around the world and then some, dense with detail....The book is filled with men and women of diverse nationalities and ethnic backgrounds, most of them making cameo appearances, establishing themselves as cosmopolitans. There is not much time to get to know anyone, because the experience is necessarily kaleidoscopic and in constant motion....Iyer is a good writer with a sharp eye, a well-furnished mind and a keen moral sense. It is probable that he intended THE GLOBAL SOUL to be as dizzying as its subject."
Sante
"[T]he formidable and elegant travel writer has come up with a philosophical look at the effects of globalization on humanity, never once using a footnote."
Sontag
"[T]he book is not exempt from some modern travel-writing cliches [but] it restores chiaroscuro and thoughtfulness to black-and-white arguments about 'globalism'--a phenomenon that already affects our lives far more than governments do, and over which we have little control."
Times Literary Supplement - Annette Kobak (07/28/2000)
"Iyer is an astute observer with a clear affinity for both contemporary chaos and Emersonian simplicity, and it's a pleasure and an education to follow his travels among fellow "Nowherians."
Ruminator Review - Matt Konrad
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