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From Naipaul’s India to the last days of Hong Kong, and from the ghosts of Pearl Harbor to Benazir Bhutto, Buruma delivers an engaging and incisive look at the ways East and West understand–and misunderstand–each other.
At home in both worlds, Buruma traverses the realms of journalism, literary criticism, and political analysis, to examine the dialogue of fact and fantasy that affects our perception of far-away lands. Whether deconstructing the films of Satyajit Ray or the novels of Yoshimoto Banana, Buruma offers a splendid counterbalance to fashionable theories of clashing civilizations and uniquely Asian values. In twenty-five illuminating, often humorous essays, The Missionary and the Libertineshows us why Buruma’s reputation for writing the most compelling commentary on the faultlines of the East-West divide is so secure.
Publisher : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date : August 14, 2001
Edition : First Edition
Language : English
Print length : 348 pages
ISBN-10 : 0375705376
ISBN-13 : 978-0375705373
Item Weight : 10.4 ounces
Dimensions : 5.19 x 0.87 x 8 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #2,219,797 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #4,031 in Travel Writing Reference #5,333 in Travelogues & Travel Essays #7,373 in History & Theory of Politics
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