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The Hare With Amber Eyes: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller
Edmund de Waal
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Description for The Hare With Amber Eyes: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller
Paperback. 264 wood and ivory carvings of animals, plants and people, none of them larger than a matchbox; apprentice potter Edmund de Waal was entranced by the collection when he first encountered it in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. When he inherited them, he discovered that they unlocked a story larger than he could have imagined. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: AFKC; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 114 x 28. Weight in Grams: 352.
**WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD**
Edmund de Waal uncovers the history of a family through a turbulent century through 264 objects.
264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have imagined.
From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siecle Paris, from occupied Vienna to Tokyo, Edmund de Waal traces the netsuke's journey through ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
348g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099539551
SKU
V9780099539551
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About Edmund de Waal
Edmund de Waal is an artist whose porcelain is exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. His bestselling memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes, won the RSL Ondaatje prize and the Costa Biography Award and in 2015 he was awarded the Windham-Campbell prize for non-fiction by Yale University. The White Road, a journey into the history of porcelain, was ... Read more
Reviews for The Hare With Amber Eyes: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller
[A] wonderful book
Dame Felicity Lott
Waitrose Weekend
In a decade where memoir became the dominant genre, this immensely evocative family history told via the journey through the generations of some Japanese miniature figures stood out
Andrew Holgate
Sunday Times,
Books of the Decade
An evocative narrative of art, inheritance and loss
Homes ... Read more
Dame Felicity Lott
Waitrose Weekend
In a decade where memoir became the dominant genre, this immensely evocative family history told via the journey through the generations of some Japanese miniature figures stood out
Andrew Holgate
Sunday Times,
Books of the Decade
An evocative narrative of art, inheritance and loss
Homes ... Read more