The definitive illustrated edition of the international bestseller with gorgeous new photography of the celebrated netsuke collection, and sumptuous full-colour images hand-picked by Edmund de Waal from his family archive264 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 siecle Paris, from occupied Vienna to post-war Tokyo, Edmund de Waal traces the netsuke's journey through generations of his remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century.
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Review:
"You have in your hands a masterpiece" (Frances Wilson Sunday Times)
"The book not only of the year, but of the decade... A quite enchanting book, to be kept and reread by as many generations as it describes" (Michael Howard TLS)
"Elegant. Modest. Tragic. Homeric." (Stephen Frears Guardian, Books of the Year)
"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 Literary Review)
Book Description:
An utterly irresistible illustrated edition of the No 1 bestselling and prizewinning memoir, with over 120 full-colour images
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0701187166
- ISBN 13 9780701187163
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages432
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