{"product_id":"beginners-guide-to-japan","title":"A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow does a sushi bar explain a Japanese poem?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy do Japanese couples plan matching outfits for their honeymoon?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy are so many things in Japan the opposite of what we expect?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter thirty-two years in Japan, Pico Iyer knows the country as few others can. In A Beginner's Guide to Japan, he dashes from baseball games to love-hotels and from shopping malls to zen temple gardens to find fresh ways of illuminating his adopted home. Playful and surreptitiously profound, this is a guidebook to a Japan few have ever seen before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Rarely in any writing on Japan is provocation so elegantly and surgically performed' Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRHD Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45370455490783,"sku":"9781526611512","price":25.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9781526611512.jpg?v=1744083012","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.pro\/products\/beginners-guide-to-japan","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}