264 wood and ivory carvings of animals, plants and people, none of them larger than a matchbox; apprentice potter Edmund de Waal was entranced by the collection when he first encountered it in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. When he inherited them, he discovered that they unlocked a story larger than he could have imagined.
| ISBN: | 9780374168285 |
| Publication date: | 13th November 2012 |
| Author: | Edmund De Waal |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 418 pages |
| Genres: |
History of art Biography: general |