{"product_id":"a-beginners-guide-to-japan-observations-and-provocations","title":"A Beginner's Guide to Japan Observations and Provocations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow does a sushi bar explain a Japanese poem?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy do Japanese couples plan matching outfits for their honeymoon?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy are so many things in Japan the opposite of what we expect?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter thirty-two years in Japan, Pico Iyer knows the country as few others can. In \u003ci\u003eA Beginner's Guide to Japan\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Rarely in any writing on Japan is provocation so elegantly and surgically performed' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atticus Bookshop Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47407735341305,"sku":"9781526611512","price":19.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/4535\/6025\/files\/14622633482731.jpg?v=1770673684","url":"https:\/\/www.atticusbooksandart.com.au\/products\/a-beginners-guide-to-japan-observations-and-provocations","provider":"Atticus Bookshop Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}