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The White Road - A Journey Into Obsession (Paperback)
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The White Road - A Journey Into Obsession (Paperback)
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List price R402
Loot Price R367
Discovery Miles 3 670
You Save R35 (9%)
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The gripping story of the lure of porcelain, or 'white gold', from
the Number One bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes. ** 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. 'This is a
haunting book, a book that amasses itself piece by piece, gaining
in weight.' Olivia Laing, New Statesman 'A mighty achievement'
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