New Delhi: Journalist Pallavi Aiyar’s new book ‘Orienting: An Indian In Japan’ elaborates on her experiences and adventures in Japan.
Published by HarperCollins, the book is set to be released on 7 August on SoftCover, ThePrint’s e-venue to launch select non-fiction books.
In her book, Aiyar makes an in-depth analysis of her time as an Indian in Tokyo, adapting to the new language, culture and race.
She tackles both the significant and the trivial, the quirky and the quotidian, to provide a thought-provoking account of an Indian in Japan.
“I spent years living in Tokyo, peeling back the layers of history, aesthetics, language and gastronomy, to reveal a nation far more contradictory than its surface homogeneity and order indicate,” the author says about her book, which is part reportage and part travelogue.
According to senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, “Orienting will be of great value to the serious reader. But it is written in a most engaging manner, making it accessible to anyone seeking to understand the many complexities of Japanese society.”
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