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Janwillem van de Wetering (Janwillem Van De Wetering / Wetering, Janwillem Van De / Van De Wetering, Janwillem / Van de Wetering, Janwillem)
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Afterzen: Experiences of a Zen Student Out on His EarISBN 0312272618 (0-312-27261-8)
Softcover, Griffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Afterzen: Experiences of a Zen Student Out on His Ear'Book summary:Janwillem van de Wetering is an extraordinary writer, as readers familiar with his works know, whether he is writing as a student of Zen or recounting the adventures of the distinctively different Amsterdam cops in his mystery novels. In Afterzen, the long-awaited follow-up to his insightful and delightful The Empty Mirror and A Glimpse of Nothingness, van de Wetering provides unorthodox solutions to a collection of classical koans found in Walter Nowick's The Wisteria Tangle. Van de Wetering give them his own distinctive touch of humor, down-to-earth reality, and tough spirituality in the context of meetings and adventures with personalities "collaged from bits and pieces of teachers and fellow students who kindly came my way." However, the dream or actual presence of his first teacher, Roshi, "a sage illuminated by humorous equanimity," is "as true to life as my malfunctioning keyboard dares to describe."
As one interviewer puts it, van de Wetering "lost his childhood when World War II began." Most of the students in young Janwillem's private school in Rotterdam, where his father was a wealthy businessman, were Jewish and died in Treblinka. It was this and other harrowing wartime experiences that led to his seeking answers in directions as varied as joining a motorcycle gang and studying philosophy, and that would finally take him to Zen centers in several parts of the world. In this third book of the trilogy, van de Wetering is a his accessible, honest, funny and genuinely spiritual best. [via]
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The Blond BaboonISBN 0345344979 (0-345-34497-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blond Baboon'Book summary:While in the neighborhood investigating a pet poisoner, Grijpstra and de Gier of the Amsterdam police are called to the home of a wealthy, middle-aged woman, the former lover of a man known only as "The Baboon," when her body turns up in her garden. [via]
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The Corpse on the DikeISBN 0345331303 (0-345-33130-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Death of a HawkerISBN 0345331311 (0-345-33131-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of a Hawker'Book summary:Amsterdam is normally sedate but today there is a riot in Newmarket Square. Constables have blocked access to adjoining Straight Tree Ditch Road all day. When the body of the "King" of the local street market is found in a room in his house on that street, his head bashed in, there are only two suspects: his lovely sister or the upstairs boarder. Which one is the killer? Grijipstra and de Gier must discover the murderer's identity before another crime can be committed. [via]
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The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen MonasteryISBN 0312207743 (0-312-20774-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery'Book summary:Seen by many as a contemporary classic, Janwillem van de Wetering's small and admirable memoir records the experiences of a young Dutch studentlater a widely celebrated mystery writerwho spent a year and a half as a novice monk in a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery. As Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, author of Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, has written, The Empty Mirror "should be very encouraging for other Western seekers."It is the first book in a trilogy that continues with A Glimpse of Nothingness and Afterzen.[via]More editions of The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery:
Glimpse of NothingnessISBN 0345339479 (0-345-33947-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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A Glimpse of Nothingness : Experiences in an American Zen CommunityISBN 0312209452 (0-312-20945-2)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Hard RainISBN 0345339649 (0-345-33964-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Rain'Book summary:On a stormy night in Amsterdam, banker Martin Ijsbreker is killed by a sniper as he sits by an open window at his home along the Binnenkant Canal. Three junkies then enter Ijsbreker's house, arrange his death to look like suicide and steal valuables for which they will be paid in heroin. The next day the addicts are found dead of overdoses in a houseboat on the Binnenkant, and Chief Inspector Halba, in charge of the Murder Brigade while his superior, the commissaris, is on holiday, dismisses their deaths as accidental. The commissaris and his trusted subordinates, Adjutant Grijpstra and Sergeant de Gier, heroes of van de Wetering's superlative Dutch crime series (Outsider in Amsterdam, The Rattle-Rat, etc.), suspect that the four deaths on the canal are linked, especially since Ijsbreker had been an officer at the Banque du Credit and connected to its nefarious affiliate, the Society for Help Abroad, both run by evil Willem Fernandus. But the virtuous trimuvirate are ordered off the case and relieved of their duties by Amsterdam's corrupt chief of police. How can they catch a gang of murderous criminals when, as de Gier says, "We're the only good guys left"? Happily, they manage to, in a fast-moving story that combines action, detection, satire, Zen philosophy and pure fun, and shows van de Wetering to be at the top of his form. [via]
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Inspector Saito's Small SatoriISBN 0345332571 (0-345-33257-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Japanese CorpseISBN 0345331281 (0-345-33128-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Japanese Corpse'Book summary:A beautiful Eurasian waitress employed at Amsterdam's most elegant Japanese restaurant reports that her boyfriend, a Japanese art dealer, is missing. The police search throughout The Netherlands and finally locate a corpse. But to find the killer, the commissaris and de Geir must go to Japan and match wits with a yakuza chieftain in his lair. This is the fifth novel in the Amsterdam Cops series. [via]
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The Maine MassacreISBN 0345344960 (0-345-34496-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Mind-MurdersISBN 0345344952 (0-345-34495-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Murder by Remote ControlISBN 0345332695 (0-345-33269-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Outsider in AmsterdamISBN 0345331265 (0-345-33126-5)
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The Rattle-RatISBN 0345328728 (0-345-32872-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rattle-Rat'Book summary:Douwe Scherjoen was a well-to-do livestock dealer from the remote Dutch province of Friesland. Then his corpse was found, half-charred by flames, floating in a dory in Amsterdam's harbor. No one knows why he was in the nation's capital, far from the bucolic pleasures of his native village of Dingjum. But since Grijpstra is Friesian by birth and can understand the dialect, he and his partner de Gier are dispactched to find the killeror at least the motive for the crime. And they discover that while no one, not even his wife, liked the victim, the culprit is the unlikliest suspect of all. [via]
Seesaw MillionsISBN 0345356934 (0-345-35693-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Sergeant's Cat and Other StoriesISBN 0345328736 (0-345-32873-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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TumbleweedISBN 0345331273 (0-345-33127-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tumbleweed'Book summary:Maria van Buren, a beautiful, high-class prostitute, is found dead with a knife in her back in her houseboat on an Amsterdam canal. Grijpstra and de Gier must solve the murder. Her tony clients all have sound alibis. Before the murderer is caught, the detectives and their commissaris will investigate allegations of black magic, travel to Curacao, and pursue clues to a chilly island off the coast of Holland. [via]
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