{"product_id":"the-global-soul-pico-iyer-9780679776116","title":"The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home","description":"From the acclaimed author of \u003cb\u003eVideo Nights in Kathmandu\u003c\/b\u003e comes this intriguing new book that deciphers the cultural ramifications of globalization and the rising tide of worldwide displacement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pico Iyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0679776117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679776116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/13\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.94h x 5.68w x 0.68d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/06\/2001 pg. 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2001 pg. 20","brand":"Pico Iyer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120030413055,"sku":"9780679776116","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_712dad12-c056-4227-aead-5cb98712f4b1.jpg?v=1687412187","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-global-soul-pico-iyer-9780679776116","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}