The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

Informationen zum Autor 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 published in 2015. He lives in London with his family. www.edmunddewaal.com Klappentext Edmund de Waal's porcelain is shown in many museum collections round the world and he has recently made installations for the V&A and Tate Britain. He was apprenticed as a potter, studied in Japan and read English at Cambridge. He is Professor of Ceramics at the University of Westminster and lives in London with his family. Zusammenfassung **THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **WINNER OF THE 2010 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD** 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.

Product details

• Authors: Edmund de Waal, Edmund de Waal
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.01.2011
• EAN: 9780099539551
• ISBN: 978-0-09-953955-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 26 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Europe, ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Pottery & Ceramics, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Family history, tracing ancestors, General and world history, Carvings: artworks, Ceramics: artworks, Ceramics, mosaic and glass: artworks, Carvings, masks, reliefs