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Table of Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Praise
THE PLACE ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS
SUN AFTER DARK
A GATHERING AROUND A PERPLEXITY
MAKING KINDNESS STAND TO REASON
HAPPY HOUR IN THE HEART OF DARKNESS
DEAD MAN WALKING
A NEW YEAR
FLIGHTS
THE KHAREEF
A JOURNEY INTO LIGHT
IN THE DARK
ON THE ROPEBRIDGE
GRANDMOTHERS
THE FOREIGN
NIGHTWALKING
A HAUNTED HOUSE OF TREASURES
A NEW MILLENNIUM
A FOREIGNER AT HOME
A FAR-OFF AFFAIR
THE PEBBLE IN THE SHOE
About the Author
ALSO BY PICO IYER
Copyright Page
 
 
Thank You
To Lynn Nesbit for representing me so expertly, and Dan Frank for being the guardian of this project; to Robert Silvers, Jim Kelly, Klara Glowczewska, Anne Fadiman, and John Sullivan for being the first sponsors of some of these explorations; to Christine Nolt and Russ Lewin for technical expertise; and to such classic travelers as Jan Morris, Norman Lewis, Peter Matthiessen, and Donald Richie, for inspiring in so many of us the longing to look at the world more closely.
This book is for Louis Greig, the only English gentleman I know mad enough to drop his comfortable job helping to run an investment bank in order to accompany a disheveled schoolfriend to Haiti, Ethiopia, Cambodia, and many of the world’s other blighted and transporting places.
 
 
In San Francisco it has long been dark. It is nearly 10 at night there. Here, endless sun. I have done everything. Sleep. Prayers. And I finished Hesse’s Siddhartha. Nothing changes the endless sunlight. And in this light the stewardesses come with questionnaires that we must all fill in. Why do we travel?, etc.
—Thomas Merton, flying, in October 1968, to Asia (a journey from which he would not return)
PRAISE FOR PICO IYER AND SUN AFTER DARK
“Pico Iyer’s remarkable talent is enough justification for going anywhere in the world he fancies.”
—The Washington Post Book World
“Brilliant. . . . [Iyer] reflects back at us images from a post-colonial world that is gorgeously complex and stubbornly elusive, yet firmly within his grasp.”
—The New York Times
“Pico Iyer is among the finest travel writers of his generation.”
—Time
“Iyer travels to places that many of us have never been to, and may never go to. . . . Iyer writes beautifully, and I was happy to follow wherever his wanderings (physical and spiritual) led.”
—Julia Livshin, San Francisco Chronicle
“Pico Iyer is a writer like no other, sui generis, and in this book his particular gifts of thoughtfulness, perception and descriptive power, allied by now with profoun ............

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