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Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World - Hardcover

Iyer, Pico

 
9780679422648: Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World

Synopsis

The author of Video Night in Kathmandu describes the building of the world's biggest tourist hotel in the tourist-free North Korea, the effects of inflation in Argentina, shortages in Cuba, and crime in Paraguay. 15,000 first printing.

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About the Author

Pico Iyer has written nonfiction books on globalism, Japan, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, and forgotten places, and novels on Revolutionary Cuba and Islamic mysticism. He regularly writes about literature for The New York Review of Books; about travel for the Financial Times; and about global culture and the news for Time, The New York Times, and magazines around the world.

From the Inside Flap

f 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.

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