“The Guest”, compiled from the best travel prose of Alexander Genis, continues the library of his essays. Like previous volumes in this series (“The Scribe’s Kama Sutra,” “Return Address,” “Pictures at an Exhibition”), the collection is distinguished by the virtues inherent in all of Genis’s essays: a taste of unpredictability, whimsicality, or, what is the same thing, freedom. “In each part I'm looking for light for what I'm missing. In the East - God or whatever replaces him there. In Japan - beauty, in China - wisdom, in India - elephants, in Israel - all at once. Europe for me has always been and remains a geopolitical dream, and I come there to make sure that it is real and not just a dream.” The book contains obscene language