Amsterdam Tales

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 details

• Authors: Helen Constantine, Helen (EDT)/ Vincent Constantine, Paul Vincent
• Assisted by: Helen Constantine (Editor), Constantine Helen (Editor), Paul Vincent (Translation), Vincent Paul (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.07.2017
• EAN: 9780198806493
• ISBN: 978-0-19-880649-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: City Tales; City Tales
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary