Overview :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... Read More
Overview :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 ... Read More
Overview :A marvelous global history of the pivotal year 1945 as a new world emerged from the ruins of World War II Year Zero is a landmark reckoning ... Read More
Overview :"Imaginative, original--wittily written."--The Washington Post Book World To some, England has long represented tolerance, reason, and polit... Read More
Overview :Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates ... Read More
Overview :A classic memoir of self-invention in a strange land: Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his amazing journey into the heart of Tokyo's unde... Read More
Overview :An astonishing account of the human capacity for survival amid a great city's descent into utter annihilation In 1939, when Ian Buruma's epi... Read More
Overview :Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Ian Buruma is fascinated, he writes, "by what makes the human speci... Read More
Overview :For eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized evangelicals who often seemed intent... Read More
Overview :In this now classic book, internationally famed journalist Ian Buruma examines how Germany and Japan have attempted to come to terms with th... Read More