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He also goes to Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge killing fields, then travels through southern Arabia in the weeks prior to 9/11. [Pico Iyer] includes some geopolitical discussion he had with the Dalai Lama and describes his travels to Easter Island. In all his travel writings, Iyer crafts vivid descrip...

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Published inDeseret news (Salt Lake City, Utah : 1964)
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Salt Lake City, Utah Deseret Digital Media 09.04.2004
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Abbott, Geoffrey
Donald, Jack
Iyer, Pico
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Summary:He also goes to Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge killing fields, then travels through southern Arabia in the weeks prior to 9/11. [Pico Iyer] includes some geopolitical discussion he had with the Dalai Lama and describes his travels to Easter Island. In all his travel writings, Iyer crafts vivid description while philosophizing about the meaning behind each place. He also describes the locales treated in the books of famed writers W.G. Sebald and Kazuo Ishiguru. With the latter novelist, Iyer explores the problem of "foreignness," as exemplified in Ishiguru's writings. He notes that Ishiguru was 5 when he left Nagasaki for London and then had to "become an English boy by copying the sounds he heard around him . . . It is the foreigner's plight, perhaps, to find himself a detective as well as an actor, always on the lookout for signs and prompts."
ISSN:0745-4724