The Hare With Amber Eyes

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