2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner
![Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580977586-3416-image-3.jpg)
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
Ian Buruma
It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After shooting van Gogh…
2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Shortlist
![Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581008467-4538-image-3.jpg)
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
![Strange Piece of Paradise](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580956286-1694-image-3.jpg)
Strange Piece of Paradise
Terri Jentz
![The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581038014-6974-image-3.jpg)
The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
Alicia Drake
![The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581014338-5023-image-3.jpg)