The white road

R$ 101,90

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** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **'Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first'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. Along the way, he meets the witnesses to its creation; those who were inspired, made rich or heartsick by it, and the many whose livelihoods, minds and bodies were broken by this obsession. It spans a thousand years and reaches into some of the most tragic moments of recent times. In these intimate and compelling encounters with the people and landscapes who made porcelain, Edmund de Waal enriches his understanding of this rare material, the ‘white gold’ he has worked with for decades.** Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 **

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Autor: Edmund de Waal

Autor

EDMUND DE WAAL

Edmund de Waal é um dos mais importantes ceramistas do mundo, tem obras expostas em instituições como Tate Britain e Victoria and Albert Museum. Diplomado em inglês pela Universidade de Cambridge, sua formação incluiu estudos de cerâmica feitos no Japão, especialidade que leciona na Universidade de Westminster. A lebre com olhos de âmbar ganhou o Costa Book Award 2010 na categoria Biografia e foi finalista do South Bank Sky Arts Award na categoria Literatura. O autor, nomeado New Writer of the Year no Galaxy National Book Award de 2010, mora em Londres com a família.