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

Shelfari edited the description of The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Vintage Departures) Saturday, August 1 2009.

• 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 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Vintage Departures) Saturday, July 25 2009.

• Added a contributor: Pico Iyer: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Vintage Departures) Friday, July 17 2009.

• Suddenly, the flames were curling seventy feet above my living room, whipped on by seventy-mile-per-hour winds that sent them ripping across the dry brush like maddened horses.