Ian Buruma was educated in Holland and Japan, and spent many years in Asia. He has become one of the most distinguished writers of his generation on the Far East, in books such as God's Dust (Vintage) and A Japanese Mirror and in his essays for The New York Review of Books. He has also written a novel, Playing the Game, a ficitonal biography of K. S. Ranjitsinhji, the Indian Prince who played cricket for the MCC in Edwardian Britain.
