• The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal, a memoir tracing a family’s history through a collection of Japanese netsuke.
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The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

Vintage Publishing

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2011


368pp

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Paperback


ISBN:9780099539551


322g

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199 x 114 x 28 mm

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Synopsis

I first met the potter and author, Edmund de Waal, when I was editing Crafts magazine in 2008. We had a coffee and, as we were parting ways, I asked him what he was up to next. He looked a little sheepish and told me he was off the Lake District to finish a book about the history of his family’s collection of netsuke, or tiny Japanese carvings. They’d apparently had a bit of history. 

When I returned to the office I told my team what Edmund was up to. ‘It sounds quite interesting,’ I said, ‘but I can’t imagine anyone buying it…’

The Hare with Amber Eyes won the Costa Biography Award in 2010 and has sold by the bucket full ever since. If you haven’t read it yet, now might be the time to treat yourself. 

An intimate story set against an epic backdrop. It’s a beautiful piece of work.

 

About the Author

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.