Buruma, Ian
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The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II
Fascinating information that loses each subject’s life thread in this choppy treatment.
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The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II
A powerful exploration of complicity, ambivalence, and the human capacity for deception and self-rationalization.
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The Churchill Complex: The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit
Fans of Buruma’s works, political analysis, and Churchill’s legacy will find much to discover here.
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A Tokyo Romance
Readers expecting cherry blossoms and tea ceremonies will be shocked; deep satisfaction awaits audiences prepared for an unflinching, explicit memoir of a stranger-in-a-strange-land's cultural and sexual maturation. ["Buruma's meditations on his place as a foreigner in Japanese society achieve some depth, but the descriptions of the various personalities and the lurid slices of 1970s Tokyo's underground scene are this memoir's strongest feature": LJ 2/15/18 review of the Penguin Pr. hc.]
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A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir
Buruma's meditations on his place as a foreigner in Japanese society achieve some depth, but the descriptions of the various personalities and the lurid slices of 1970s Tokyo's underground scene are this memoir's strongest feature. Readers interested in 20th-century Japanese cinema and avant-garde theater will find a particular appeal in Buruma's anecdotes.
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Buruma's work is well-paced, absorbing, and gives a human face to some of the darkest eras of contemporary European history. Readers interested in biography, Judaism, social history, European history, the history of both World Wars, and/or a good old-fashioned love story will find much here to appreciate. [See Prepub Alert, 7/13/15.]
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War
Buruma's work is well-paced, absorbing, and gives a human face to some of the darkest eras of contemporary European history. Readers interested in biography, Judaism, social history, European history, the history of both World Wars, and/or a good old-fashioned love story will find much here to appreciate. [See Prepub Alert, 7/13/15.]
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