Der Zweite Weltkrieg trennte das Ehepaar Schlesinger für viele Jahre. Bernard versorgte als Arzt britische Truppen, Winifred blieb in London. Täglich schrieben sie sich Briefe. Sie sind Zeugnis einer besonderen Familiengeschichte. Denn...

Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970s. von Buruma, Ian

Am 2. November 2004 ermordete ein radikaler Islamist auf offener Straße in Amsterdam Theo van Gogh, der sich in Filmen und Kolumnen polemisch mit dem Islam auseinandergesetzt hatte. Die niederländische Gesellschaft reagierte fassungslos,...

Ian Buruma was educated in Holland and Japan. He has spent many years in Asia, which he has written about in A Japanese Mirror and Bad Elements. His other books include: The Wages of Guilt, Anglomania and Year Zero. Buruma lives in New...

Year Zero von Buruma, Ian

A brilliant and insightful history of the special relationship between the UK and the USA, which Ian Buruma argues is now under threat with the election of Donald Trump and Brexit. von Buruma, Ian

A brilliant and insightful history of the special relationship between the UK and the USA, which Ian Buruma argues is now under threat with the election of Donald Trump and Brexit. von Buruma, Ian

In Wages of Guilt, Ian Buruma explores the duplicity of feeling towards World War II amongst the people of two very different participant countries: Germany and Japan. 'A comparative study of great subtlety and intelligence' Spectator...

In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan's history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a...

The Collaborators von Buruma, Ian

Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.Ian Buruma is fascinated, he writes, "by what makes the human species behave atrociously." In Theater of Cruelty the acclaimed author of The Wages of Guilt and Year...

The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II von Buruma, Ian