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title: "The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto Paperback – October 27, 1992"
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# The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto Paperback – October 27, 1992

**Brand:** pico iyer
**Price:** 123 Lei
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- **What is this?** The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto Paperback – October 27, 1992 by pico iyer
- **How much does it cost?** 123 Lei with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Its like reading a dream
*by Q***Q on September 30, 2023*

This book is simply sublime. Pico Iyer has not only captured japan but done so in a manner whereby his carefully crafted use of words created in me a mindset very similar to a dreamscape. I drifted through the book feeling and seeing japan and this japanese lady he has become involved with in a way where she is learning from him as he is learning from her its as if black sees white for the first time and vice versa and beautifully done so that the dream unfolds as each learns more of the other and those insights on both sides are simply so fascinating I did not want this book to end. Fabulous. I know I shall read it again and again but I wonder if when I do it can create that same dreamscape over and over for me.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Different Sort of Travel Book
*by M***A on March 12, 2007*

Most travel books follow a conventional path. An intrpedid traveller goes to an exotic locale and begins a journey from Point A to Point B. During the trip, the narrator describes the landscape and the intersting characters he meets along the way. The reader leaves the book feeling that they have a better understanding of some distant locale.Pico Iyer's "The Lady and the Monk" is a very different type of travel book. First and foremost, Iyer goes to Kyoto for a year and never really leaves the city. His book is more of a sedentary tale that revolves around his romantic relationship with a 30 year old, married mother of two.The emotional center of this book is about a Japanese woman's attempt to break out of the strict confines of a society that keeps her from realizing her dreams. This tale of rebellion and rebirth is not told by the woman but by her Anglo/Indian/American lover. His analysis and insights are interesting but they are by there very nature second hand. And yet the one area where Iyer is an expert, his own feelings, he is a bit coy. This is a very unusual traval narrative. It is interesting but not a classic.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "O brave new world/ That has such people in't!"
*by D***S on May 23, 2007*

Any reviewer can find something wrong with a book, if s/he tries hard enough. And many have been quick to do so here. I suppose I could as well (e.g., by picking on Iyer for not going into the implications of the faux-Utopian society Japan has created). But I have absolutely no desire to do so. The book is so beautifully and deftly written, the romance so touching and piquant without falling into bathos, that it would, to me be similar to picking at the lovely haikus interspersed herein, stylistically complementing the lyrical writing.Yes, as one reviewer has pointed out, it is more memoir than what is called "Travel Literature"-though the boundaries between the two have always seemed blurry to me at best.This book will be enjoyed most by lovers of poetry, lyrical poetry - such as that of Yeats and Shelley, than by readers of the "hard-boiled" school of travel writing epitomized in V.S. Naipaul's works. If you believe that poetry is the deepest sort of writing, that one can get to "know" a society or people better through a Romantic relationship with a member of that society than by doing a Sociological study of it, if your dream life is as important to you as waking life, in short, if you have a poetic nature: This is the book for you!"Everyone falls in love with what he cannot begin to understand."--Or, as Pico finds out, thinks he cannot, but through patience and love finds that he can...begin.PS-Pico and Sachiko are still together, according to wikipedia at any event.

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