Five top books on crossing cultures

Pico Iyer is the author of several books about cultures converging, including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, The Global Soul, Abandon, and, most recently, The Man Within My Head.

One of his five top books on crossing cultures, as told to the Wall Street Journal:
The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje (1992)

There's no leading character in Ondaatje's candlelit labyrinth of a