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Title: AMSTERDAM TALES
By: Helen Constantine (Editor), Paul Vincent (Trans)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0198806493
ISBN 13: 9780198806493
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 27 July, 2017
Series: City Tales
Pages: 224
Description: Paul Vincent presents a compelling collection of prose fiction, memoirs, and anecdotes centering on Amsterdam. Eighteen newly translated works give the reader, and the traveller, a glimpse of the Amsterdam that lies beyond the tourist guidebooks, spanning five centuries of history and culture and illuminating the city anew.
Synopsis: 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.
Illustrations: Numerous black-and-white photographs
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Returns: Returnable
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