Welcome Home Amsterdam: A literary guidebook to the city by Talia Stone

Welcome Home Amsterdam is a vibrant collection of short stories based in and around the Dutch capital. From the Golden Age to current times, these twelve fictional tales give a vivid glimpse of the real Amsterdam and shine an unexpected light on the city’s inhabitants: we experience how a remembrance service silences a rowdy student fraternity, how the Anne Frank House affects a woman born to fascist parents and how a young Turkish girl empowers the women in her neighbourhood.

It is no coincidence that water streams through these stories, threading them together, although the characters themselves are unaware that they are connected.