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 ...
Shortly thereafter, Ian Buruma returned to his native country to try to make sense of it all and to see what larger meaning should and shouldn't be drawn from this story.
Shortly thereafter, Ian Buruma returned to his native country to try to make sense of it all, and to see what larger meaning should and shouldn't be drawn from this story. The result is Murder in Amsterdam, a masterpiece.
Strobe Talbott, president, Brookings Institution “Buruma . . . is in a unique position to explain Holland's predicament to an English-speaking audience, and his slim but free-ranging investigation succeeds, in part, because he's willing ...
Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Baantjer , A. C. [ De Cock en de wurger op zondag . English ] Murder in Amsterdam / A. C. Baantjer .-- 1st Intrigue Press ed . AMSTERDAM Haarlemmer Houttuinen Palmgr de Ruijterkade ...