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Pico Iyer is the author of more than a dozen books, translated into twenty-three languages, and he regularly contributes to the New York Review of Books, Granta, the Financial Times and dozens of magazines around the world. His three recent talks for TED have received seven million views so far.
What holds everything together, besides Iyer's elegantly smooth prose style and gift for detailed observation, is a circling around the theme of autumn in Japan and this autumnal period in his life ... There's much wisdom in what he says * New York Times Book Review * A tender meditation on both Japanese culture and the impermanence of life * National Geographic Traveller * A memoir about transience, decline and Iyer's simple life among ping-pong playing pensioners * Financial Times, Books of the Year * Exquisite ... [Iyer] is a consummate tour quide * New Yorker * [An] exquisite personal blend of philosophy and engagement, inner quiet and worldly life ... A vivid meditation ... It's Iyer's keen ear for detail and human nature that helps him populate his trademark cantabile prose ... [A] genuine and loving tale * Los Angeles Times * Luminous ... An engrossing narrative, a moving meditation on loss and an evocative, lyrical portrait of Japanese society * Publishers Weekly * As a guide to far-flung places, Pico Iyer can hardly be surpassed * New Yorker * Humbling and moving ... One of a handful of magical books that I have read straight through * Daily Telegraph * In his guise of travel writer, Iyer has really been our most elegant poet of dislocation * Guardian *
