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"[THE GLOBAL SOUL is] quite a tour, around the world and then some, dense with detail....The book is filled with men and women of diverse nationalities and ethnic backgrounds, most of them making cameo appearances, establishing themselves as cosmopolitans. There is not much time to get to know anyone, because the experience is necessarily kaleidoscopic and in constant motion....Iyer is a good writer with a sharp eye, a well-furnished mind and a keen moral sense. It is probable that he intended THE GLOBAL SOUL to be as dizzying as its subject."Iyer, Pico is the author of 'Global Soul Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home', published 2001 under ISBN 9780679776116 and ISBN 0679776117.
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