Pico Iyer





Pico Iyer

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January 01, 1957 in Oxford, England, The United Kingdom

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Pico Iyer is a British-born essayist and novelist of Indian descent.


Average rating: 3.75 · 3,866 ratings · 519 reviews · 16 distinct works
Video Night in Kathmandu: A...
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 652 ratings — published 1988 — 8 editions
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The Lady and the Monk: Four...
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 431 ratings — published 1991 — 12 editions
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Falling Off the Map: Some L...
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3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 389 ratings — published 1993 — 11 editions
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The Open Road: The Global J...
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 333 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions
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The Global Soul: Jet Lag, S...
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 296 ratings7 editions
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Sun After Dark: Flights Int...
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 205 ratings7 editions
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The Best American Travel Wr...
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3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
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Abandon
3.1 of 5 stars 3.10 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions
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Cuba and the Night: A Novel
3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions
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Tropical Classical
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions
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“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
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“A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense of community. Displacement can encourage the wrong kinds of distance, and if the nationalism we see sparking up around the globe arises from too narrow and fixed a sense of loyalty, the internationalism that's coming to birth may reflect too roaming and undefined a sense of belonging. ”
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“A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself, reversing, redoubling, and returning along the course of its own sweet river music; while the semicolon brings clauses and thoughts together with all the silent discretion of a hostess arranging guests around her dinner table.”
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