by Edmund de Waal
I'm sure it was a great book, but I could only make it a third of the way through. I'm personally not a non-fiction reader, and while it was absorbing, I found it moved very slowly and required too much art history knowledge to get through.
I'm sure it was a great book, but I could only make it a third of the way through. I'm personally not a non-fiction reader, and while it was absorbing, I found it moved very slowly and required too much art history knowledge to get through.
April Book Club ReadI was looking forward to reading this book and it certainly didn't disappoint me. At the end of it I feel rather emotional. This is the story of a collection of 264 Netsuke (among them a Hare with Amber eyes), how they came into Edmund's family. But it's more that that - it's ...