SunAfterDark

Table of Contents Title Page Dedication Epigraph Praise THE PLACE ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS SUN AFTER DARK A GATHERING AROUND A PERPLEXITY MAKING KINDNESS STAND TO REASON HAPPY HOUR IN THE HEART OF DARKNESS DEAD MAN WALKING A NEW YEAR FLIGHTS THE KHAREEF A JOURNEY INTO LIGHT IN THE DARK ON THE ROPEBRIDGE GRANDMOTHERS THE FOREIGN NIGHTWALKING A HAUNTED HOUSE OF TREASURES A NEW MILLENNIUM A FOREIGNER AT HOME A FAR-OFF AFFAIR THE PEBBLE IN THE SHOE About the Author ALSO BY PICO IYER Copyright Page Thank You To Lynn Nesbit for representing me so expertly, and Dan Frank for being the guardian of this project; to Robert Silvers, Jim Kelly, Klara Glowczewska, Anne Fadiman, and John Sullivan for being the first sponsors of some of these explorations; to Christine Nolt and Russ Lewin for technical expertise; and to such classic travelers as Jan Morris, Norman Lewis, Peter Matthiessen, and Donald Richie, for inspiring in so many of us the longing to look at the world more closely. This book is for Louis Greig, the only English gentleman I know mad enough to drop his comfortable job helping to run an investment bank i......