In this volume Paul Vincent presents a compelling collection of prose fiction, memoirs and anecdotes centring on Amsterdam from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. His selection offers a rare insight into the history and culture of the city. The subjects range from Rembrandt to the persecution of the Jews in World War 2, from barricades in a working-class district during the Depression to a writer's unhealthy obsession with a massage parlour. These
eighteen newly-translated tales give the reader, and the traveller, a tantalizing glimpse of the Amsterdam that lies beyond the tourist guidebooks.
Product code: 9780198806493
| ISBN |
9780198806493 |
| Dimensions (HxWxD in mm) |
H196xW147xS12 |
| Series |
City Tales |
| No. Of Pages |
224 |
| Publisher |
Oxford University Press |