Edmund De Waal

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2010 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have imagined. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siecle Paris, from occupied Vienna to Tokyo, Edmund de Waal traces the netsuke's journey through generations of his remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century. 'You have in your hands a masterpiece' Frances Wilson, Sunday Times 'The most brilliant book I've read for years... A rich tale of the pleasure and pains of what it is to be human' Bettany Hughes, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year 'A complex and beautiful book' Diana Athill

A Hidden Inheritance

The Hare with Amber Eyes

Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 360 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.

das verborgene Erbe der Familie Ephrussi

Der Hase mit den Bernsteinaugen

La liebre con ojos de ámbar : una herencia oculta

Anhand kleiner japanischer Kunstfiguren, die in einer Bankiersfamilie in Paris, Wien und Tokyo von Generation zu Generation weitergegeben wurden, wird das Leben der jüdischen Oberschicht vom späten 19. Jahrhundert bis nach dem 2. Weltkrieg rekonstruiert.

Porto Editora

Maria Lúcia Lima

264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie.

uma heranc̜a escondida

A lebre de olhos de âmbar

Charlotte Vignon

Gouthiere's Candelabras

** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller ** "Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first" A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln, and fuse into porcelain âe" translucent, luminous, white. Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de Waal sets out on a quest - a journey that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice, Versailles, Dublin, Dresden, the Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina and the hills of Cornwall to tell the history of porcelain. Along the way, he meets the witnesses to its creation; those who were inspired, made rich or heartsick by it, and the many whose livelihoods, minds and bodies were broken by this obsession. It spans a thousand years and reaches into some of the most tragic moments of recent times. In these intimate and compelling encounters with the people and landscapes who made porcelain, Edmund de Waal enriches his understanding of this rare material, the âe~white goldâe(tm) he has worked with for decades. ** Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 **

A Journey Into Obsession

The White Road

Un'eredità di avorio e ambra. Ediz. illustrata

en skjult arv

Haren med de ravgule øjne

Da den engelske keramikeren Edmund de Waal første gang så familiens samling av japanske netsuker i et glasskap i Tokyo, klarte han nesten ikke puste. Da han senere fikk arve samlingen, oppdaget han at de små figurene var nøkkelen til en stor historie. "Haren med øyne av rav" er historien om en mektig families langsomme vei mot tragedien, og om samlingen de klarte å holde fast på som et siste minne om hva de engang hadde vært. Ifølge forlaget er boken en blanding av familiehistorie, memoarer, biografi, essay, fortelling, kunsthistorie og detektivroman.

Haren med øyne av rav

德瓦爾

琥珀眼睛的兔子

«Incantevole» Natalia Aspesi, la Repubblica «Raramente un libro ha conquistato a tal punto il pubblico amante dell’arte e della letteratura» Livia Manera, Corriere della Sera Un'elegante vetrina nella casa londinese di Edmund de Waal contiene 264 sculture giapponesi di avorio, o legno, non più grandi di una scatola di fiammiferi, raffiguranti divinità, personaggi di ogni tipo, animali, piante. La vetrina è aperta, e i piccoli figli di de Waal possono estrarre i netsuke - così si chiamano i minuscoli oggetti - e giocarci. Come facevano, ha scoperto l'autore, i piccoli figli di Viktor e Emmy von Ephrussi, suoi bisnonni, nel boudoir della madre, in un fastoso palazzo viennese della Ringstrasse, un secolo fa. Prima che Hitler entrasse in trionfo a Vienna e avessero inizio le persecuzioni e i saccheggi nelle case degli ebrei.Ebrei di Odessa erano appunto gli Ephrussi, commercianti di cereali e poi banchieri ricchi e famosi quanto i Rothschild, con ville e palazzi sparsi in tutta Europa. Quello di Vienna, dove i netsuke arrivano nel 1899 da Parigi - dono di nozze ai cugini di Charles Ephrussi, famoso collezionista, mecenate, storico dell'arte, amico di Renoir, Degas, Proust - conteneva tante e tali opere d'arte che i minuscoli oggetti sfuggirono all'attenzione dei razziatori nazisti. Come sopravviveranno alla guerra, e come finiranno a Tokyo, dove de Waal li vede per la prima volta a casa del prozio che glieli lascerà in eredità, sono solo due delle tante, emozionanti sorprese di questo libro che, apparso più di un anno fa, continua a incantare critici e lettori.Affascinato dall'eleganza, dalla precisione, dalle straordinarie qualità tattili delle sculture, l'autore, famoso artista della ceramica, decide di ricostruire la storia dei loro passaggi da una città all'altra, da un palazzo all'altro, da una mano all'altra. Ricostruisce così anche la storia romanzesca della sua famiglia. «Vagabondando» per anni tra l'Europa e il Giappone, attingendo a una quantità di materiali d'archivio, ma soprattutto rivivendo le vicende dei suoi antenati nei luoghi da loro abitati, osservandole con gli occhi dell'artista, de Waal ci regala un libro capace di restituire l'atmosfera di intere epoche, di sigillare intere vite dentro un racconto perfetto.

Un'eredità di avorio e ambra

Más de doscientas figuritas de madera y marfil, ninguna de ellas mayor que una caja de cerillas, son el origen de este fascinante libro en el que Edmund de Waal describe el viaje que han hecho a lo largo de los años. Un viaje lleno de aventuras, de guerra, de amor y de pérdida, que resume, en la historia de una familia, la historia de Europa en los siglos XIX y XX. Un texto evocativo y de gran belleza que comienza con una pequeña liebre de ojos de ámbar que se mezcla en un bolsillo con las monedas, y termina, como todo auténtico viaje, con el descubrimiento de uno mismo. "El libro de la década... Una obra maravillosa, para ser conservada y leída una y otra vez por tantas generaciones como describe". The Times Literary Supplement "La mejor lección de historia imaginable". The New Yorker "Un libro de enorme categoría, casi insólito en el panorama editorial. Los grandes hechos de la historia transcurren en paralelo a la pequeñez de los objetos coleccionados, y todo está tan bien ligado en este libro prodigioso". Jordi Llovet, El País "Una apasionante, bella y sutil historia de su familia, poblada de banqueros, aristócratas y artistas, con cameos de Proust, Renoir, Strauss, Rilke, la reina de Inglaterra, los Rotschild...". Xavi Ayén, La Vanguardia "Un fascinante ensayo. De Waal es un gran escritor, nutrido de una copiosísima varia erudición, cuya riqueza, sin embargo, nunca empece el flujo de una pasión desbordante. La clave de esta venturosa travesía narrativa es haberla urdido a partir de ese pequeño botón del netsuke". Francisco Calvo Serraller, El País

Una herencia oculta

La liebre con ojos de ámbar

Le lièvre aux yeux d'ambre

This book was written by the author of the award-winning author of `Hare with the Amber Eyes¿ Edmund de Waal and includes full colour illustrations of all Leach¿s best-known work. This book features a new foreword putting the book in context since its first publication and has been reissued in the brand new hardback British Artists format. Bernard Leach was a pre-eminent artist-potter of the twentieth century. In the early part of his career he spent twelve formative years in Japan, during a period of febrile excitement in the arts. In 1920 he returned to England to set up a studio in St Ives. Leach¿s influence on the growth of the studio pottery movement, both in Japan and in the West, has been profound. His making of ceramics and his teaching of some of the foremost aritst-potters of the period gives him a central place in the international history of the decorative arts. Edmund de Waal is a world-famous author and ceramicist. He wrote the `The Hare with Amber Eyes¿ which won the Costa Book Award for Biography and the Galaxy National Book Award (New Writer of the Year Award), and was also selected as an Economist Book of the Year.

Bernard Leach

Alan Cristea Gallery

From Zero

Edmund de Waal

Edmund de Waal at Waddesdon

The classic hardback edition, completely reimagined with gorgeous new photography of the now-famous netsuke collection, and sumptuous full-colour images hand-picked by Edmund de Waal from his family archive 264 Japanese wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox- Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have imagined. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de si cle Paris, from occupied Vienna to Tokyo, Edmund de Waal traces the netsuke's journey through generations of his remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century.

Glenn Adamson

Victoria and Albert Museum

Alun Graves

Edmund de Waal is one of the leading artists working with ceramics today. He has also specialised in various large-scale installations which show groups of ceramic vessels, often in historic architectural settings. Signs and Wonders will be the largest and most ambitious installation commission, to date, by any single artist in a public or private space, which will be placed at the heart of the recently reopened ceramic galleries in the V+A. This beautifully illustrated book provides a very personal narrative on how the galleries have generated new ways of working. Archival pictures and newly commissioned photography of the installation made up of 425 pieces, are shown alongside examples from the V+A's world famous ceramics collection,which have in turn inspired Signs and Wonders.

Edmund De Waal

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