The White Road
A Journey Into Obsession
(Sprache: Englisch)
Edmund de Waal, the bestselling author of THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES, travels the globe to tell the story of his obsession with porcelain, or white gold, and the lure it held for the Europeans who encountered it. This book is also an intimate memoir of the...
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Edmund de Waal, the bestselling author of THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES, travels the globe to tell the story of his obsession with porcelain, or white gold, and the lure it held for the Europeans who encountered it. This book is also an intimate memoir of the authors life as a potter, in which he explains his deepening understanding of the material he has worked with for over 45 years.
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Edmund de Waal, the bestselling author of THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES, travels the globe to tell the story of his obsession with porcelain, or 'white gold', and the lure it held for the Europeans who encountered it. This book is also an intimate memoir of the author's life as a potter, in which he explains his deepening understanding of the material he has worked with for over 45 years.
Autoren-Porträt von Edmund de Waal
Edmund de Waal is an artist whose porcelain is exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. His bestselling memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes, won the RSL Ondaatje prize and the Costa Biography Award and in 2015 he was awarded the Windham-Campbell prize for non-fiction by Yale University. The White Road, a journey into the history of porcelain, was published in 2015. He lives in London with his family.www.edmunddewaal.com
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Edmund de Waal
- 2016, 416 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: VINTAGE
- ISBN-10: 0099575981
- ISBN-13: 9780099575986
- Erscheinungsdatum: 14.06.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Sweeping in scope ... intimate in detail ... The White Road is a mesmirising and finely wrought work. It is also a cautionary tale about the price of beauty pursued at any cost. Ekow Eshun Independent on Sunday
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