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The Hare with Amber Eyes
- A Hidden Inheritance
- By: Edmund de Waal
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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Winner of the 2010 COSTA Biography Award. A total of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his Great Uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the ‘netsuke’, they unlocked a story far larger than he could ever have imagined.…
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Brilliant
- By Ruth on 11-06-12
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The Hare with Amber Eyes
- A Hidden Inheritance
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 23-03-11
- Language: English
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The White Road
- A pilgrimage of sorts
- By: Edmund de Waal
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
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A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln and fuse into porcelain - translucent, luminous, white. Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de Waal sets out on a quest - a journey that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice, Versailles, Dublin, Dresden, the Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina and the hills of Cornwall to tell the history of porcelain.
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Irritating
- By Elleff on 30-10-16
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The White Road
- A pilgrimage of sorts
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 01-10-15
- Language: English
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Haren med de ravgule øjne
- By: Edmund de Waal
- Narrated by: Michael Brostrup
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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Forfatteren af denne bog, Edmund de Waal, er en internationalt anerkendt keramiker, der har sine værker udstillet over hele verden. En dag arver han fra en onkel en samling af 264 bittesmå, udskårne, japanske figurer af træ og elfenben - såkaldte netsuker - der har været i familiens eje siden 1870’erne. Arven og genstandene pirrer Edmund de Waals nysgerrighed, og han begiver sig ud på en rejse tilbage i den europæiske historie for at finde ud af, hvem der har rørt ved disse smukke, små skabninger, hvem der har elsket og beundret dem, og hvad de har været vidne til.
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Haren med de ravgule øjne
- Narrated by: Michael Brostrup
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 14-09-15
- Language: Danish
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Der Hase mit den Bernsteinaugen
- By: Edmund de Waal
- Narrated by: Hanns Zischler
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
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Nach dem Tod seines Großonkels Iggie Ephrussi erbt Edmund de Waal eine Sammlung japanischer Miniaturschnitzereien - so genannte Netsuke. Auf der Suche nach ihrer Herkunft und jenen Menschen, die sie einst besaßen, begibt er sich auf die Reise nach Paris, Wien, Odessa und Tokio. Dabei lernt er die bewegende Geschichte seiner Vorfahren kennen und erzählt sie. Die Ephrussi gehören im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert zu den einflußreichsten und wohlhabendsten jüdischen Bankiersfamilien.
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Der Hase mit den Bernsteinaugen
- Narrated by: Hanns Zischler
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 20-11-13
- Language: German
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Un'eredità di avorio e ambra
- By: Edmund De Waal
- Narrated by: Davide Marzi
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
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Un'elegante vetrina nella casa londinese di Edmund de Waal contiene 264 sculture giapponesi di avorio, o legno, non più grandi di una scatola di fiammiferi, raffiguranti divinità, personaggi di ogni tipo, animali, piante. La vetrina è aperta, e i piccoli figli di de Waal possono estrarre i netsuke - così si chiamano i minuscoli oggetti - e giocarci. Come facevano, ha scoperto l'autore, i piccoli figli di Viktor e Emmy von Ephrussi, suoi bisnonni, nel boudoir della madre, in un fastoso palazzo viennese della Ringstrasse, un secolo fa.
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Un'eredità di avorio e ambra
- Narrated by: Davide Marzi
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 14-08-18
- Language: Italian
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