Ian Buruma’s spellbinding account of three near-mythic figures—a Dutch fixer, a Manchu princess, and Himmler’s masseur—who may have been con artists and collaborators under Japanese and German rule, or true heroes, or somethin...
“Stimulating and highly readable. . . . The Churchill Complex is a rich and rewarding book.” —Wall Street JournalFrom one of its keenest observers, a brilliant, witty journey through the "Special Relationship" between...
A classic memoir of self-invention in a strange land: Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his amazing journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970'sWhen Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more th...