A01=Ian Buruma
Amsterdam
assassination
Author_Ian Buruma
Ayaan Hersi Ali
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Christopher Hitchens
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Isobel Hilton
Mohammed Bouyeri
murder
Muslim
Neal Ascherson
political books
Theo van Gogh
Timothy Garton Ash
Tobias Jones
true stories
Product details
- ISBN 9781843543206
- Weight: 270g
- Dimensions: 131 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 12 Apr 2007
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After shooting van Gogh, Mohammed Bouyeri calmly stood over the body and cut his throat with a curved machete. The murder horrified quiet, complacent Holland - a country that prides itself on being a bastion of tolerance - and sent shock waves around the world. In Murder in Amsterdam, Ian Buruma describes what he found when he returned to his native country to try and make sense of van Gogh's death. The result is Buruma's masterpiece: a brave and rigorous study of conflict in our time, with the intimacy and control of a true-crime page-turner.
Ian Buruma is Luce Professor at Bard College, New York. His previous books include God's Dust, Behind the Mask, The Missionary and the Libertine, Playing the Game, The Wages of Guilt, Anglomania and Bad Elements.
