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Informationen zum Autor Edmund de Waal is one of the world's leading ceramic artists! and his porcelain is held in many major museum collections. His bestselling memoir! The Hare with Amber Eyes won the Costa Biography Award and the RSL Ondaatje Prize. It was also shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize! the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize! the PEN/Ackerley Prize and the Southbank Sky Arts Award for Literature. It was longlisted for the Orwell Prize and BBC Samuel Johnson Prize. Edmund was named New Writer of the Year at the 2010 Galaxy National Book Awards. www.edmunddewaal.com Klappentext A new! deluxe edition of the hugely popular and critically acclaimed memoir! with colour illustrations throughout. This new photography of the famous netsuke collection has been handpicked by De Waal from his family archive. The book won a Costa Award and De Waal was named New Writer of the Year at the Galaxy National Book Awards. Zusammenfassung Presents photographs of the celebrated netsuke collection - 264 Japanese wood and ivory carvings! none of them bigger than a matchbox. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siecle Paris! from occupied Vienna to post-war Tokyo! the author traces the netsuke's journey through generations of his family.
