Description

An Economist Book of the Year        Costa Book Award Winner for Resource     Universe National Book Award Winner (New Author of the Year Award)Edmund de Waal is just a world-well-known ceramicist. Having spent thirty years producing stunning pots—which are passed on—he includes a specific feeling, and subsequently offered, obtained of the key lives of objects. He learned a collection of 264 small Western wood and ivory carvings, named netsuke when, he desired to know who'd kept and handled them, and the way the collection had were able to endure. And thus starts this terribly moving memoir and detective story as de Waal finds both story of the netsuke and of his household, the Ephrussis, over five decades.