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Hare with Amber Eyes

Hare with Amber Eyes

by Edmund De Waal

Book Details

Binding: Hardback
Publication Date: 03/06/2010
Publisher: CCV
ISBN-13: 9780701184179
Biography: General

Author Biography

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.

Brief Description

A memoir that traces the network of a remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century. It tells the story of a unique collection which passed from hand to hand - and which, in a twist of fate, found its way home to Japan.