A Beginner'S Guide To Japan Av Pico Iyer

<b>Winner of the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2020</b>How does a sushi bar explain a Japanese poem?Why do Japanese couples plan matching outfits for their honeymoon?Why are so many things in Japan the opposite of what we expect?After thirty-two years in Japan, Pico Iyer knows the country as few others can. In <i>A Beginner''s Guide to Japan</i>, he dashes from baseball games to love-hotels and from shopping malls to zen temple gardens to find fresh ways of illuminating his adopted home. Playful and surreptitiously profound, this is a guidebook to a Japan few have ever seen before. <b>''Rarely in any writing on Japan is provocation so elegantly and surgically performed'' <i>Financial Times </i></b>