SynopsisWhat does the elegant nostalgia of Argentina have in common with the raffish
nonchalance of Australia? And what do both these countries have in common
with North Korea? They are all 'lonely places' cut off from the rest of the world by
geography, ideology or sheer weirdness. And they have all attracted the
attention of Pico Iyer.
Whether he is documenting the cruising rites of Icelandic teenagers, being
interrogated by tipsy Cuban police or summarizing the plot of Bhutan's first
feature film ('a $6500 spectacular about a star-crossed couple: she dies, he
throws himself on the funeral pyre, and both live happily ever after as an ox and
a cow'), Iyer is always uncannily observant and acerbically funny.
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About the author
Pico Iyer is the author of seven works of non-fiction, including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Global Soul and, more recently, The Open Road, as well as two novels. An essayist for Time since 1986, he contributes regularly to The New York Times, The Financial Times, and many other magazines and newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific.
