Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerence - Brossura

Buruma, Ian

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0143112368 ISBN 13: 9780143112365

Casa editrice: Penguin Books, 2007

Riassunto

Traces the murder of the controversial Dutch filmmaker and great-grandnephew of Vincent van Gogh by an angry Muslim immigrant's son who promptly committed ritual suicide, describing how the event sent shock waves throughout Europe and tested the boundaries of the secular West's tolerance of other cultures. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

"Fascinating . . . Characteristically vivid and astute." --Timothy Garton Ash, The New York Review of Books

"[Murder in Amsterdam] is a work of philosophical and narrative tension, strikingly sharp and brooding, frank and openly curious." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Shrewd, subtly argued." --The New York Times Book Review

L'autore:

Ian Buruma is editor of The New York Review of Books. His previous books include Their Promised Land, Year Zero, The China Lover, Murder in Amsterdam, Occidentalism, God's Dust, Behind the Mask, The Wages of Guilt, Bad Elements, and Taming the Gods.

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• Editore: Penguin Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0143112368
• ISBN 13: 9780143112365
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288