- Published: 17 November 2011
- ISBN: 9781448114306
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 432
The Hare With Amber Eyes
A Hidden Inheritance
- Published: 17 November 2011
- ISBN: 9781448114306
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 432
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
Part treasure hunt, part family saga, Edmund de Waal's richly original memoir spans nearly two centuries... Combines all the charm of a personal memoir with the resonance of world history.
Rosemary Hill, Evening Standard
The most enchanting history lesson imaginable
New Yorker
The most brilliant book I've read for years... A rich tale of the pleasure and pains of what it is to be human
Daily Telegraph
The most enchanting history lesson imaginable
New Yorker
The book not only of the year, but of the decade
Times Literary Supplement
As full of beauty and whimsy as a netsuke from the hands of a master carver
The Economist
A meditation on touch, exile, space and the responsibility of inheritance... You have in your hands a masterpiece
Sunday Times
Few writers have ever brought more perception, wonder and dignity to a family story as has Edward de Waal
Irish Times
An intensely personal meditation on art, history and family, told in prose as elegant and precise as the netsuke themselves.
London Review of Books
A writer of great elegance and insight... De Waal tells this story with consummate style and erudition... Engrossing
Daily Telegraph
A complex and beautiful book
Literary Review
The most beautiful book I've read this year
Daily Telegraph
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.
Times Literary Supplement
Both the story he uncovers and the objects he describes are fascinating and startling
Financial Times
A brilliantly constructed picture of vanished worlds
Mail on Sunday
A book of astonishing originality
Evening Standard
The perfect book, one you feel compelled to give to everyone... to share with them this treasure
Vogue
An exquisitely described search for a lost family and a lost time. From the moment you open the book you are in an old Europe fully re-created
Irish Times
Unexpectedly combines a micro craft-form with macro history to great effect
Guardian
The best book of the year... a memorable account, written with exemplary modesty
Spectator
Elegant. Modest. Tragic. Homeric.
Guardian