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About Pico Iyer
English-born essayist and novelist
Pico Iyer is an English-born essayist and novelist known chiefly for his travel writing. He is best known for books about crossing cultures and for essays shaped by life between places. His work includes Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, and The Global Soul. He has also written for Time, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times, and his writing often returns to travel, identity, and cultural exchange.
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- “We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, t…”Pico Iyer
- “To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper…”Pico Iyer
- “I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, es…”Pico Iyer
- “...home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down.”Pico Iyer
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- “In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never kn…”Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “Nature is bent on new beginningand death has not a chance of winning...”Rosy Cole
- “I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.”Emily Bronte
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Books by Pico Iyer
The Open Road
2008
The Global Soul
2000
A Beginner's Guide to Japan
2019
Sun After Dark
2004
Cuba and the Night
1995