ISBN Amsterdam Tales 224 pages English

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.