All 27 Uses of "Amsterdam" in "The Goldfinch" - Auto-generated

i. WHILE I WAS STILL in Amsterdam, I dreamed about my mother for the first time in years.†

p. 5.1 *

Amsterdam = largest city of the Netherlands

It was my first time in Amsterdam; I'd seen almost nothing of the city and yet the room itself, in its bleak, drafty, sunscrubbed beauty, gave a keen sense of Northern Europe, a model of the Netherlands in miniature: whitewash and Protestant probity, co-mingled with deep-dyed luxury brought in merchant ships from the East.†

p. 5.7

NEWARK LIBERTY INTL (EWR) TO AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS (AMS)†

p. 644.1

"From Antwerp to Amsterdam is only three hours' drive," said Boris.†

p. 644.2

Boris—happily gobbling—was reminiscing about his first and only attempt to ride a bicycle in the city (wipeout, disaster) and also how much he enjoyed the new herring in Amsterdam, which fortunately wasn't in season since apparently you ate it by holding it up by the tail fin and dangling it down into your mouth, but I was too disoriented by my surroundings to listen very closely and with almost painfully heightened senses I stirred at the potato mess with my fork and felt the strangeness of the city pressing in all around me, smells of tobacco and malt and nutmeg, cafe walls the melancholy brown of an old leather-bound book and then beyond, dark passages and brackish water lapping, low skie†

p. 649.1

"I do not know why he does not move to Amsterdam," he said, gnawing happily on a hunk of sausage.†

p. 649.6

He is afraid to show his face in Amsterdam —afraid it will get back to Horst.†

p. 655.9

I mean—Amsterdam?†

p. 659.6

Because they kept cancelling and changing the plan—you did not even arrive until today, but they do not know that—because they kept changing the plan I told them you were tired and nervous of sitting around Amsterdam with suitcase of green waiting to hear from them, you'd re-banked your moneys and were flying back to U.S. They did not like to hear that.†

p. 661.4

On the Overtoom again, heading back into Amsterdam: Locksmith Sleutelkluis, Vacatures, Digitaal Printen, Haji Telecom, Onbeperkt Genieten, Arabic letters, lights streaking, it was like a nightmare, I was never going to get off this fucking road.†

p. 682.3

Frits is maybe only person in Amsterdam he knew to call on such short notice but Martin — fuck.†

p. 682.7

"Amsterdam is an easy city to get around," Boris said, as if I hadn't spoken.†

p. 685.9

But for all foreseeable time to come—for as long as history was written, until the icecaps melted and the streets of Amsterdam were awash with water—the painting would be remembered and mourned.†

p. 701.6

Drugsgerelateerde criminaliteit: Frits Aaltink afkomstig uit Amsterdam en Mackay Fiedler Martin uit Los Angeles.†

p. 703.5

I didn't want to leave without Boris, without knowing if Boris was okay, it was the war-movie confusion of running on and leaving a fallen friend with no idea what worse hell you were running into, but at the same time I wanted out of Amsterdam so badly I could imagine falling to my knees upon disembarkation at Newark, touching my forehead to the concourse floor.†

p. 706.3

And while it was quite possible Martin and Frits had colleagues in Amsterdam looking for me (another good reason to get out of town), I had no reason to think the police were looking for me at all.†

p. 706.5

Boris, at lunch, had spoken of taking the train from Amsterdam to Antwerp (and Frankfurt: I didn't want to go anywhere near Germany) but, also, to Paris.†

p. 707.7

Possibly a good idea to go down and look at the State Department's website and apprise myself of my rights as an American citizen—certainly there were many worse places in the world to be in jail than the Netherlands and maybe if I was up front about everything I knew (Horst and Sascha, Martin and Frits, Frankfurt and Amsterdam) they could run the painting down.†

p. 726.6

Anton —" nibbling on a roll: making a face, spitting a rye seed between his teeth — "Anton works in a bar where many rich people go, off P. C. Hooftstraat, fancy Amsterdam —Gucci Street, Cartier street.†

p. 739.9

For druggies, Amsterdam is fairly popular Christmas spot.†

p. 742.9

Sascha wasn't even in Amsterdam—he was hearing it all at second hand, from Chinky, whose German is not that great—Horst was hearing it at third.†

p. 742.9

Well — Horst definitely didn't know the painting was in Amsterdam, nor that Sascha was trying to get a loan on it, not until Sascha panicked and called him when we took it.†

p. 743.1

No—I didn't mean here here—not in Amsterdam —I will agree with you that it is a very good idea for us probably to get out of town, and as for myself I will not care to be coming back for a while.†

p. 746.9

I was in Amsterdam, " I added, when he didn't say anything.†

p. 748.8

Amsterdam.†

p. 751.6

Why Amsterdam?†

p. 751.6

And as an ongoing prospect, after Amsterdam, which was really my Damascus, the way station and apogee of my Conversion as I guess you'd call it, I continue to be immensely moved by the impermanence of hotels: not in any mundane Travel-and-Leisure way but with a fervor bordering on the transcendent.†

p. 768.9

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