In »The Lady and the Monk« (1991) as well as in his two novels ✼uba and the Night« (1995) and ✺bandon« (2003) Iyer describes how whole cultures enter into love affairs with one another, not sure how much they are drawn to another person, or to the culture that person symbolizes. Despite quietly questioning the implications of the new rootlessness, »The Global Soul« (2000) casts both astonished and amused glances at globalization in the East and the West and registers how cultures merge without dissolving completely. His first book »Video Night in Kathmandu« (1988) describes the tragic, comic and moving effects of Western influence on the east in long reports from ten different Asian countries. They combine the experiences of the globetrotter, journalistic meticulousness, and wide-ranging erudion with subtle humor, a sensitive receptiveness to the spirit of foreign places, and a passionate sense of incongruity. Iyer’s books can be classified as investigation of globalism. For more than a quarter century now, he has been writing essays, reports, cover stories, and reviews for dozens of international newspapers, including »The New York Review of Books«, »The Times Literary Supplement«, »Lettre International« and »Granta«.

After finishing his second master’s degree, he taught at Harvard for two years, before beginning writing on international affairs and culture as an essayist, critic and staff writer for »Time Magazine«. During two summer vacations he worked for the »Let’s Go« travel guide series, for which he visited dozens of Greek, Italian, English and French locations. He grew up in England and California and studied English Literature at Oxford and Harvard. Pico Iyer was born in 1957 to Indian parents in Oxford, England.

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