Author: Buruma, Ian
Title: God's Dust: a Modern Asian Journey
Description: Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 0374164584. Near Fine in Fine jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.267 with bibliography. "How to be modern without losing your cultural sense of self" write the author in his preface to this book. Examining Burma, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan he "writes with trenchant skepticism yet implicit sympathy about the cultural confusion, the endless searching for meaning and national identity in these contemporary countries. clean tight copy with slight edgewear and on page 5- 1/2" red marker line in inside margin and pg. 127 two 1/2" black lines in both margins. Near Fine/Fine.

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