The hare with amber eyes : a hidden inheritance / Edmund de Waal.
Material type: TextPublication details: London Vintage 2011Description: 354 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780099539551 (pbk.) :
- 0099539551
- 9780099539551
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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General | The Harden Library, King's Hospital | Main | 920 deWA (BIOG) (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | R12158F0499 |
Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus 2010. COSTA Biography Award 2010
264 wood and ivory carvings of animals, plants and people, none of them larger than a matchbox; apprentice potter Edmund de Waal was entranced by the collection when he first encountered it in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. When he inherited them, he discovered that they unlocked a story larger than he could have imagined.
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