A Beginners Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations

A playful and profound guidebook full of surprising, brief, incisive glimpses into Japanese culture. Pico Iyer is the author of six works of nonfiction and two novels. He has covered the Tibetan question for Time, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and many other publications for more than twenty years. He has been traveling in and around Tibetan communities and the Himalayas for more than thirty years.