# Murder in Amsterdam

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- Authors: [Ian Buruma](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-buruma)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2007-04-12

## Description

It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After shooting van Gogh, Mohammed Bouyeri calmly stood over the body and cut his throat with a curved machete. The murder horrified quiet, complacent Holland – a country that prides itself on being a bastion of tolerance – and sent shock waves around the world. In Murder in Amsterdam , Ian Buruma describes what he found when he returned to his native country to try and make sense of van Gogh’s death. The result is Buruma’s masterpiece: a brave and rigorous study of conflict in our time, with the intimacy and control of a true-crime page-turner.

## Editions

### Murder in Amsterdam

- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4311-236-5
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2007-08-28
- Language: en_US

### Murder in Amsterdam

- Publisher: atlantic_books
- ISBN: 978-18-4354-320-6
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2007-04-12
- Language: en_GB