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

The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Vintage Departures)
- Used Book in Good Condition
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 lifeâ€”shops, services, sociabilityâ€”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.

Country	USA
Brand	Vintage
Manufacturer	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
PartNumber	9780679776116
Color	Multicolor
IsAdultProduct
Height	8
Length	5.19
Weight	0.7495716908
Width	0.73
ReleaseDate	2001-03-13
NumberOfItems	1

The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Vintage Departures)