Sun After Dark: Flights into the Foreign
Sun After Dark: Flights into the Foreign by Pico Iyer is a first edition published by Knopf on April 6, 2004. This 240-page book invites readers to join Iyer on a series of diverse and exotic journeys, exploring locations such as L.A., Yemen, Haiti, and Ethiopia. The narrative intertwines physical adventures with introspective reflections, as Iyer navigates through various landscapes and cultures, presenting a rich tapestry of experiences.
Readers will find that Iyer’s travels raise profound questions about the nature of suffering and the insights gained from encountering the unfamiliar. His explorations include meditation with Leonard Cohen and discussions with the Dalai Lama, as well as visits to significant historical sites like the Khmer Rouge killing fields in Cambodia. Through these experiences, Iyer examines how travel can deepen our understanding of both the world and ourselves, making this work a thoughtful exploration of voyages and travels.
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Pico Iyer – one of our most compelling and profoundly provocative travel writers – invites us to accompany him on an array of exotic explorations, from L.A. and Yemen to Haiti and Ethiopia, from a Bolivian prison to a hidden monastery in Tibet. He goes to Cambodia, where the main tourist attraction is a collection of skulls from the Khmer Rouge killing fields, and travels through southern Arabia in the weeks before September 11, 2001. He practices meditation with Leonard Cohen and discusses geopolitics with the Dalai Lama, travels to Easter Island and through the imaginative terrains of W. G. Sebald and Kazuo Ishiguro, weaving physical and psychological challenges together into a seamless narrative.
Throughout his travels, the familiar thrill of adventure is haunted by the unsettling questions that arise for Iyer everywhere he goes: How do we reconcile suffering with the sunlight often found around it? How does the foreign instruct the traveler, precisely by discomfiting him? And how does travel take us more deeply into reality, both within us and without? Intensely affecting, Iyer’s explorations are a road map of thinking in new ways about our changing world.
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