264 wood and ivory
carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was
entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle
Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the 'netsuke', they
unlocked a story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have
imagined.
From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siecle
Paris, from occupied Vienna to Tokyo, Edmund de Waal traces the
netsuke's journey through generations of his remarkable family against
the backdrop of a tumultuous century.
