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    Murder in Amsterdam

    Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerence

    Author Ian Buruma
    Paperback
    $27.00 US
    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Books
    5.09"W x 7.75"H x 0.5"D   | 7 oz | 72 per carton
    On sale Aug 28, 2007 | 288 Pages | 9780143112365
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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.
    "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
    © Merlijn Doomernik
    Ian Buruma was born in the Netherlands. He studied Chinese at Leiden University and cinema at Nihon University, Tokyo. He has lived and worked in Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, and New York. He is a regular contributor to Harper’s and The New Yorker and writes monthly columns for Project Syndicate. He is a professor at Bard College and lives in New York City. View titles by Ian Buruma
    Murder in AmsterdamOne: Holy War in Amsterdam

    Two: Thank You, Pim

    Three: The Healthy Smoker

    Four: A Dutch Tragedy

    Five: Submission

    Six: A Promising Boy

    Seven: In Memoriam

    Postscript
    Acknowledgments
    Notes
    Index

    About

    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.

    Praise

    "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

    Author

    © Merlijn Doomernik
    Ian Buruma was born in the Netherlands. He studied Chinese at Leiden University and cinema at Nihon University, Tokyo. He has lived and worked in Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, and New York. He is a regular contributor to Harper’s and The New Yorker and writes monthly columns for Project Syndicate. He is a professor at Bard College and lives in New York City. View titles by Ian Buruma

    Table of Contents

    Murder in AmsterdamOne: Holy War in Amsterdam

    Two: Thank You, Pim

    Three: The Healthy Smoker

    Four: A Dutch Tragedy

    Five: Submission

    Six: A Promising Boy

    Seven: In Memoriam

    Postscript
    Acknowledgments
    Notes
    Index

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