• The White Road by Edmund de Waal, a journey into the history and cultural significance of porcelain.
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The White Road: A Journey Into Obsession

The White Road: A Journey Into Obsession

Vintage Publishing

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2016


416pp

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Paperback


ISBN:9780099575986


368g

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130 x 197 x 31 mm

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Synopsis

The White Road is de Waal’s follow-up to the outrageously successful The Hare with Amber Eyes and charts his fascination with the material that initially made his name, porcelain. Travelling from China to England, via Germany, he tells the beguiling history of this sought-after substance in tiny shard-like chapters, that encompass beauty, human ingenuity, ambition, avarice, and, yes, obsession.

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.