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Bad Elements
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Ian Buruma |
"Strange things happen when Chinese dynasties near their end. Dams break, earthquakes hit, clouds appear in the shape of weird beasts, rain falls in odd colors, and insects infest the countryside. Th… |
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The China lover
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Ian Buruma |
In Buruma's reimagining of the life of Yamaguchi Yoshiko, a Japanese torn among patriotism for her parents, a homeland, worldly ambition, and sympathy for the Chinese, she would reflect almost exactl… |
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Year zero
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Ian Buruma |
Ian Buruma examines the seven months (in Europe) and four months (in Asia) that followed surrender of the Axis powers, from the fate of Holocaust survivors liberated from the concetration camps, and … |
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China Lover
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Ian Buruma |
A transfixing portrait of a woman and a nation eagerly burying the past to transform the future. In his enthralling new novel, Ian Buruma uses the life of the starlet Yamaguchi Yoshiko as a lens thro… |
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Het circus van Max Beckmann en andere essays
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Ian Buruma |
Essays over politiek, maatschappij en kunst. |
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