
This title features over 70 brilliant writers. ` You are staring out of the window, you are crossing a bridge, you are cycling through traffic, when the heavens open. Amsterdam suddenly feels as right as your favourite pair of old slippers, as heartbreakingly beautiful as that lover you once tossed aside during an eclipse of reason. You wonder whether you will ever have the heart to leave this place. As the writing in this volume proves, this same epiphany has dawned through the long years on the likes of Charles de Montesqieu, Dubravka Ugresic, Alain de Botton, Simona Luff, Chris Ewan & many more.` From outsiders to insiders, from classic to cutting-edge, over seventy brilliant writers reveal the many faces, present & past, of this amazing city. Ian Mc Ewan describes that perfect Amsterdam moment. Alain de Botton finds the exotic in the ordinary. Cees Nooteboom celebrates a city of water. David Sedaris visits Anne Frank`s House Geert Mak on a nation within a nation. Doeschka Meijsing takes a swim in the canal. Simon Schama evokes Old Amsterdam. Dubravka Ugresic discovers a city of exile. Geoff Dyer spends a weekend in Amsterdam & much, much more.