Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance

Buruma, Ian

ISBN 10: 1594201080 / ISBN 13: 9781594201080

Edité par Penguin Press, New York, NY, 2006

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The book itself is spotless and completely free of wear or damage. The dust jacket shows a trace of soiling and very slight wear to the top edge but is not price-clipped and has no chips or tears. Book and dust jacket will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. "Buruma is one of the planet's wisest heads and best writers about the politics of national identity, civilization, and culture. With the eye of a novelist and the erudition of a scholar, he finds in the frenzy of soccer fans no less than in the history of the last several centuries an explanation for the violence that has erupted in the land of Rembrandt and tulips. This is a book about much more than a single crime in a single city. It is a brilliant insight into what ails Europe and, more broadly, our globalized world." -- Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution.

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• Titre: Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
• Éditeur: Penguin Press, New York, NY
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1594201080
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781594201080
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Very Good

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Book by Buruma Ian

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A revelatory look at what happens when political Islam collides with the secular West

Ian Buruma 's Murder in Amsterdam is a masterpiece of investigative journalism, a book with the intimacy and narrative control of a crime novel and the analytical brilliance for which Buruma is renowned. On a cold November day in Amsterdam in 2004, the celebrated and controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was shot and killed by an Islamic extremist for making a movie that "insulted the prophet Mohammed." The murder sent shock waves across Europe and around the world. Shortly thereafter, Ian Buruma returned to his native land to investigate the event and its larger meaning as part of the great dilemma of our time.