by Edmund De Waal · Vintage Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099539551
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«The Hare with Amber Eyes» is Edmund de Waal's memoir and family history, published by Vintage Books in paperback (368 pages, in English).
The ceramist Edmund de Waal recounts how he inherited a collection of 264 netsuke, small Japanese wood and ivory carvings, and how these pieces help him reconstruct his family's history over a century: from the booming empire of Odessa to Belle Époque Paris, from occupied Vienna to present-day Tokyo.
The book was number one in sales according to The Sunday Times and won the Costa Book Award 2010 in the biography category, as well as the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2011.
For readers interested in family memoirs, twentieth-century European history, and Japanese art collecting.
Edmund Arthur Lowndes de Waal, is an English contemporary artist, potter and author. He is known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels often created in response to collections and archives or the history of a particular place. De Waal's book The Hare with Amber Eyes was awarded the Costa Book Award for Biography, Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize in 2011 and Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for Non-Fiction in 2015. De Waal's second book, The White Road, tracing his journey to discover the history of porcelain, was released in 2015.
