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Wages of Guilt
Wages of Guilt

By Ian Buruma

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God's Dust: Modern Asian Journey
Playing the game.
Playing the game.

By Ian Buruma

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Welche Freiheit
Welche Freiheit

By Ulrike Ackermann

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A Japanese Mirror
A Japanese Mirror

By Ian Buruma

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A House For Mr Biswas
A House For Mr Biswas

By V. S. Naipaul

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Occidentalism
Occidentalism

By Avishai Margalit, Ian Buruma

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Twenty-five years ago, Edward Said's Orientalism spawned a generation of scholarship on the denigrating and dangerous mirage of "the East" in the Western colonial mind. But "the West" is the more d...

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Murder in Amsterdam
Murder in Amsterdam

By Ian Buruma

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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 na...

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The China Lover
The China Lover

By Ian Buruma

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From Shanghai before and during the Second World War to U.S. occupied Tokyo, and, finally, to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Ian Buruma's masterful novel about the intoxicating power of collec...

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