What holds everything together, besides Iyers 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 guide * New Yorker * [ An] exquisite personal blend of philosophy and engagement, inner quiet and worldly life ... A vivid meditation ... Its Iyers 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 -- praise for 'Sun After Dark' * New Yorker * Humbling and moving ... One of a handful of magical books that I have read straight through -- praise for 'The Man Within My Head' * Daily Telegraph * In his guise of travel writer, Iyer has really been our most elegant poet of dislocation -- praise for 'The Man Within My Head' * Guardian *
