Summary of Edmund de Waal's The White Road

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I was able to find shards of porcelain in the dirt near the farmer’s house. They were the base of a twelfth-century wine cup, a fine tapering stem holding a jagged bowl, a thumb’s breadth across. It was impossibly thin. #2 The kilns were long gone, but the bricks were used for a shed or pigsty, and the slopes were useful for building into. The bamboo and these long flat grasses were cut for packing finished po