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

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It was the emblematic crime of our moment: On a cold November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man, Mohammed Bouyeri, the son of Moroccan immigrants, shot and killed the celebrated and controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, great-grandnephew of Vincent and iconic European provocateur.

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When Sidney Vanoven is sent to occupied Japan, in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, it is his dream posting. By day, he works in the censor's office watching Japanese films; at night he immerses himself in the sensual pleasures of Tokyo.

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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.

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In this spellbinding account of three World War Two collaborators, prize-winning historian Ian Buruma examines questions of truth as he investigates their complex and tangled lives.

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Ian Buruma's moving and powerful story of his grandparents' enduring love through the terror and separation of two world wars.

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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

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Both panoramic and intimate, A Japanese Mirror is a rich and surprising exploration of national identity.

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In this wonderfully witty and engaging book, Ian Buruma weaves together history and biography to look at continental Anglophiles, those eminent men and women who have been fascinated by all things English.

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Ian Buruma approaches China through the stories of its dissidents: ordinary, brave people who oppose a regime that uses repression in the name of social order. What does dissidence mean in an authoritarian society And what chance do they have of succeeding in the face of the largest remaining dictatorship on earth

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'Ian Buruma's wonderful book is about a time, immediately after the end of the war, which has somehow fallen between the cracks of history, and which the author has now devastatingly brought to light. A compelling and astounding addition to the literature of the war' Daily Mail

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For eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized evangelicals who often seemed intent on erasing the church-state divide. In Europe, the increasing number of radicalized Muslims is creating widespread fear that Islam is undermining Western-style liberal democracy. And even in polytheistic Asia,