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| The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance |  | Author: Edmund de Waal
Publisher: Picador
Category: Book
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Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: First Edition
Pages: 368
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 1 x 5.5 x 8.3
ISBN: 0312569378
EAN: 9780312569372
ASIN: 0312569378
Publication Date: August 2, 2011
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DIVDIVPAnI Economist/I Book of the Year /PPCosta Book Award Winner for Biography /PPGalaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award)/P/DIVPEdmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty years making beautiful pots—which are then sold, collected, and handed on—he has a particular sense of the secret lives of objects. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny Japanese wood and ivory carvings, called netsuke, he wanted to know who had touched and held them, and how the collection had managed to survive. /PPAnd so begins this extraordinarily moving memoir and detective story as de Waal discovers both the story of the netsuke and of his family, the Ephrussis, over five generations. A nineteenth-century banking dynasty in Paris and Vienna, the Ephrussis were as rich and respected as the Rothchilds. Yet by the end of the World War II, when the netsuke were hidden from the Nazis in Vienna, this collection of very small carvings was all that remained of their vast empire./P/DIV
Amazon.com Review
strongAmazon Best of the Month, September 2010/strong: At the heart of Edmund de Waal's strange and graceful family memoir, emThe Hare with Amber Eyes/em, is a one-of-a-kind inherited collection of ornamental Japanese carvings known as netsuke. The netsuke are tiny and tactile--they sit in the palm of your hand--and de Waal is drawn to them as "small, tough explosions of exactitude." He's also drawn to the story behind them, and for years he put aside his own work as a world-renowned potter and curator to uncover the rich and tragic family history of which the carvings are one of the few concrete legacies. De Waal's family was the Ephrussis, wealthy Jewish grain traders who branched out from Russia across the capitals of Europe before seeing their empire destroyed by the Nazis. Beginning with his art connoisseur ancestor Charles (a model for Proust's Swann), who acquired the netsuke during the European rage for Japonisme, de Waal traces the collection from Japan to Europe--where they were saved from the brutal bureaucracy of the Nazi Anschluss in the pockets of a family servant--and back to Japan and Europe again. Throughout, he writes with a tough, funny, and elegant attention to detail and personality that does full justice to the exactitude of the little carvings that first roused his curiosity. em--Tom Nissley/em
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