Description
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.
Author: Ian Buruma
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 09/01/2007
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.32w x 0.54d
ISBN13: 9780143112365
ISBN10: 0143112368
BISAC Categories:
- True Crime | Murder | General
- Social Science | Islamic Studies
- History | Western Europe | General
Author: Ian Buruma
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 09/01/2007
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.32w x 0.54d
ISBN13: 9780143112365
ISBN10: 0143112368
BISAC Categories:
- True Crime | Murder | General
- Social Science | Islamic Studies
- History | Western Europe | General
About the Author
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.