Background
Iyer, Siddharth Pico was born on February 11, 1957 in Oxford, England. Son of Rashavan Narasimhan and Nandini Iyer.
(When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monas...)
When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today -- not the world of businessmen and production lines, but the traditional world of changing seasons and the silence of temples, of the images woven through literature, of the lunar Japan that still lives on behind the rising sun of geopolitical power. All this he did. And then he met Sachiko. Vivacious, attractive, thoroughly educated, speaking English enthusiastically if eccentrically, the wife of a Japanese "salaryman" who seldom left the office before 10 P.M., Sachiko was as conversant with tea ceremony and classical Japanese literature as with rock music, Goethe, and Vivaldi. With the lightness of touch that made Video Night in Kathmandu so captivating, Pico Iyer fashions from their relationship a marvelously ironic yet heartfelt book that is at once a portrait of cross-cultural infatuation -- and misunderstanding -- and a delightfully fresh way of seeing both the old Japan and the very new.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679738347/?tag=2022091-20
(The author of Video Night in Kathmandu ups the ante on hi...)
The author of Video Night in Kathmandu ups the ante on himself in this sublimely evocative and acerbically funny tour through the world's loneliest and most eccentric places. From Iceland to Bhutan to Argentina, Iyer remains both uncannily observant and hilarious.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679746129/?tag=2022091-20
(Having captivated readers with such gems of travel writin...)
Having captivated readers with such gems of travel writing as Video Night in Kathmandu, Pico Iyer now presents a novel whose central character is another place: the melancholy, ebullient, and dazzlingly inconsistent island that is Castro's Cuba. "On almost every page you can smell the dust, the cheap perfume and the rum of Havana today, or better still, tonight."--Los Angeles Times.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067976075X/?tag=2022091-20
Iyer, Siddharth Pico was born on February 11, 1957 in Oxford, England. Son of Rashavan Narasimhan and Nandini Iyer.
Bachelor, University of Oxford, 1978; Master of Arts, University of Oxford, 1982; AM, Harvard University, 1980.
Teaching fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980-1982; staff writer, Time magazine, New York City, 1982-1986; contributor, Time magazine, New York City, since 1986; contributing editor, Condé Nast Traveler, New York City, since 1992; contributing editor, Tricycle, New York City, since 1994; contributing editor, Civilization, Washington, since 1995.
(When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monas...)
(Having captivated readers with such gems of travel writin...)
(In Tropical Classical the author of Video Nights in Katma...)
(The author of Video Night in Kathmandu ups the ante on hi...)
(Falling Off the Map : Some Lonely Places of the World by ...)