# Theater of Cruelty

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- Book: [Theater of Cruelty](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-buruma/theater-of-cruelty) ([Theater of Cruelty.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-buruma/theater-of-cruelty.md))
- Authors: [Ian Buruma](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-buruma)
- Publisher: new_york_review_books
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-812-6
- Published: 2014-09-16
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Ian Buruma is fascinated, he writes, “by what makes the human species behave atrociously.” In Theater of Cruelty the...