The Book Club
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The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
Saturday/Jan/12:27 2011Edmund de Waal
Review
"...as full of beauty and whimsy as a netsuke from the hands of a master carver"--The Economist
"...this book is impossible to put down. You have in your hands a masterpiece."--Francis Wilson, The Sunday Times
"An intensely personal meditation on art, history and family, told in prose as elegant and precise as the netsuke themselves"--London Review of Books
"It is a rich tale of the pleasure and pains of what it is to be human"--Bettany Hughes, Daily Telegraph
"An exquisitely described search for a lost family and a lost time"--Colm Toibin, The Irish Times
"Both the story he uncovers and the objects he describes are fascinating and startling"--AS Byatt, Financial Times
"Unexpectedly combines a micro craft-form with macro history to great effect"--Julian Barnes, The Guardian
"A book of astonishing originality"--Evening Standard
"An extraordinary and touching journey with a backdrop glittering with images from Proust and Zola and Klimt"--Margaret Drabble, Times Literary Supplement
"Every page of Edmund de Waal’s The Hare with Amber Eyes gave me pleasure"--Rachel Polansky, Times Literary Supplement
Book Description
The history of a family through 264 objects - set against a turbulent century - from an acclaimed writer and potter
"...as full of beauty and whimsy as a netsuke from the hands of a master carver"--The Economist
"...this book is impossible to put down. You have in your hands a masterpiece."--Francis Wilson, The Sunday Times
"An intensely personal meditation on art, history and family, told in prose as elegant and precise as the netsuke themselves"--London Review of Books
"It is a rich tale of the pleasure and pains of what it is to be human"--Bettany Hughes, Daily Telegraph
"An exquisitely described search for a lost family and a lost time"--Colm Toibin, The Irish Times
"Both the story he uncovers and the objects he describes are fascinating and startling"--AS Byatt, Financial Times
"Unexpectedly combines a micro craft-form with macro history to great effect"--Julian Barnes, The Guardian
"A book of astonishing originality"--Evening Standard
"An extraordinary and touching journey with a backdrop glittering with images from Proust and Zola and Klimt"--Margaret Drabble, Times Literary Supplement
"Every page of Edmund de Waal’s The Hare with Amber Eyes gave me pleasure"--Rachel Polansky, Times Literary Supplement
Book Description
The history of a family through 264 objects - set against a turbulent century - from an acclaimed writer and potter