Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West (Us)

Title: Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West (Us)
Author: Ian Buruma
ISBN: 9780375502224
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: Used: Very Good
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Publisher Description:
From Naipaul's India to the last days of Hong Kong, and from the ghosts of Pearl Harbor to Benazir Bhutto, Buruma delivers an engaging and incisive look at the ways East and West understand -- and misunderstand -- each other.

At home in both worlds, Buruma traverses the realms of journalism, literary criticism, and political analysis, to examine the dialogue of fact and fantasy that affects our perception of faraway lands. Whether de-constructing the films of Satyajit Ray or the novels of Banana Yoshimoto, Buruma offers a splendid counterbalance to fashionable theories of clashing civilizations and uniquely Asian values. In twenty-five illuminating, often humorous essays, The Missionary and the Libertine shows us why Buruma's reputation for writing the most compelling commentary on the fault lines of the East-West divide is so secure.