The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance (Picador) (Paperback)
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Short Description for The Hare with Amber Eyes Having spent 30 years making beautiful pots, de Waal has a particular sense of the secret lives of objects. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny Japanese wood and ivory carvings, he wanted to know who had touched and held them, and how the collection had managed to survive. And so begins this extraordinarily moving memoir and detective story.
Full description- Publisher: St Martin's Press
- Published: 02 August 2011
- Format: Paperback 354 pages
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- Categories: Oriental Art | Art History: c 1900 - | Ceramics: Artworks | Individual Artists, Art Monographs | Individual Architects & Architectural Firms | Biography: General | Autobiography: General | Biography: Arts & Entertainment | Autobiography: Arts & Entertainment | Black & Asian Studies
- ISBN 13: 9780312569372 ISBN 10: 0312569378
- Sales rank: 2,878
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Full description for The Hare with Amber Eyes
An" Economist" Book of the Year Costa Book Award Winner for Biography Galaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award)Edmund 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. And 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.
