The history of a family through 264 objects - set against a turbulent century - from an acclaimed writer and potter

Informationen zum Autor Edmund de Waal is an artist who has exhibited in museums around the world. His family memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010) won the Costa Biography Award and the RSL Ondaatje Prize and has sold over a million copies worldwide. The White Road (2015), a journey into the history of porcelain, was followed by the Sunday Times -bestselling Letters to Camondo (2021). De Waal's books have been translated into 29 languages. He lives in London. 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.

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Edmund de Waal

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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.

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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.