The history of a family through 264 objects - set against a turbulent century - from an acclaimed writer and potter
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.
[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 &
Antiques *
From a hard and vast archival mass...Mr de Waal has fashioned,
stroke by minuscule stroke, a book as fresh with detail as if it
had been written from life, and as full of beauty and whimsy as a
netsuke from the hands of a master carver. * The Economist *
This remarkable book... a meditation on touch, exile, space and the
responsibility of inheritance... like the netsuke themselves, this
book is impossible to put down. you have in your hands a
masterpiece. -- Frances Wilson * The Sunday Times *
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