Hare

I was persuaded to read The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal even after listening to extracts on the wireless! (We retired types live such busy lives.) The website link gives pictures of the netsuke. The book was a delight, the pictures are a delight, I am, as you can imagine, delighted.

There will be those who criticise - is it a history, is it biography, is it a fiction, is it a dog with 3 legs? De Waal was concerned about writing ... 'too thin a story'. (p15 in the Vintage paperback) I was certainly happy with the heft of it. His subsequent comments about making things provided an excuse to read The Wrench by Primo Levi, I'm glad I did.