Publisher: | Vintage |
Genres: | Sculpture Books, Carvings: Artworks Books, Biography: General |
Authors: | Edmund De Waal |
Pages: | 354 pages |
ISBN10: | 0099539551 |
ISBN13: | 9780099539551 |
Tags: | Sculpture Books, Carvings: Artworks Books, Biography: General, Free Download, PDF Download |
Language: | en |
Physical Form: | Book |
Size: | Huge |
Type: | Digital |
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 * 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 * 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 * 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* * [A] wonderful book -- Dame Felicity Lott * Waitrose Weekend *