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Wages of Guilt
Ian Buruma
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Description for Wages of Guilt
Paperback. Explores the duplicity of feeling towards World War II amongst the people of two very different participant countries: Germany and Japan. This title compares how Germany and Japan have attempted to come to terms with their violent pasts, and investigates the painful realities of living with guilt, and with its denial. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1FPJ; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBJF; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 151 x 28. Weight in Grams: 334.
In this highly original and now classic text, Ian Buruma explores and compares how Germany and Japan have attempted to come to terms with their violent pasts, and investigates the painful realities of living with guilt, and with its denial.
As Buruma travels through both countries, he encounters people whose honesty in confronting their past is strikingly brave, and others who astonish by the ingenuity of their evasions of responsibility. In Auschwitz, Berlin, Hiroshima and Tokyo he explores the contradictory attitudes of scholars, politicians and survivors towards World War II and visits the contrasting monuments that commemorate the atrocities ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843549604
SKU
V9781843549604
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99-10
About Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College in New York state. His previous books include God's Dust, Bad Elements, Anglomania and Murder in Amsterdam, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Current Interest Book and was shortlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize. He was the recipient of the ... Read more
Reviews for Wages of Guilt
"'A comparative study of great subtlety and intelligence' Spectator
'A profound book' Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Telegraph 'Absorbing and sometimes surprising' A. C. Grayling, Financial Times 'Buruma's sensitive account... is most disturbing to read. I strongly recommend [this] unusual book.' Sunday Times"
'A profound book' Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Telegraph 'Absorbing and sometimes surprising' A. C. Grayling, Financial Times 'Buruma's sensitive account... is most disturbing to read. I strongly recommend [this] unusual book.' Sunday Times"