Video Night in Kathmandu Paperback by Pico Iyer

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage (1989-06-18)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 400 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780679722168
• Item Weight: 311.94 grams
• Dimensions: 20.32 x 13.21 x 2.03 cm

Mohawk hair-cuts in Bali, yuppies in Hong Kong and Rambo rip-offs in the movie houses of Bombay are just a few of the jarring images that Iyer brings back from the Far East.

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.