The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto: 0000 (Vintage Departures)

by Pico Iyer (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1992

  $16.75

• Used

  Paperback
  1992

  $3.28

• Used

  Hardcover
  1991

  $81.05

  Pico Iyer went to Kyoto and lived in a monastery for a time. He wanted to learn about Zen Buddhism and Japan and he wanted to get to know Kyoto. In Kyoto he met Sachiko, a typical bourgeois housewife locked into an arranged marriage. This is the story of Kyoto, Sachiko and the monk. The author also wrote Video Night In Kathmandu .