The Hare With Amber Eyes

[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 *Few writers have ever brought more perception, wonder and dignity to a family story as has Edmund de Waal in a narrative that beguiles from the opening sentence – Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *Part treasure hunt, part family saga, Edmund de Waal’s richly original memoir spans nearly two centuries and covers half the world * Evening Standard *A book that combines the charm of a personal memoir with the resonance of world history. – Rosemary Hill * The Scotsman *[de Waal) weaves together with great delicacy various strands of the lives of a glamorous dynasty – Gerald Jacobs * The Telegraph *The miracle of this book is that, by the end, we do learn the itinerant life of this collection. How did the netsuke escape the Gestapo? How did they return to the family and move to Tokyo? The answers, like much in this book, are incredible – Frances Spalding * The Independent *

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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