The hare with amber eyes : a hidden inheritance

Format:

Book (regular print)

Title:

The hare with amber eyes : a hidden inheritance

Author:

De Waal, Edmund author

ISBN:

9780374168285

Edition:

First revised and illustrated American edition.

Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

Physical Description:

418 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm

General Note:

"Revised and illustrated edition originally published in 2011 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain"--Title page verso.

Contents:

Pt. 1. Paris, 1871-1899 -- pt. 2. Vienna, 1899-1938 -- pt. 3. Vienna, Kovecses, Tunbridge Wells, Vienna, 1938-1947 -- pt. 4. Tokyo, 1947-2001 -- Coda. Tokyo, Odessa, London, 2001-2009.

Summary:

Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 264 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.

Personal Subject:

Ephrussi family.

De Waal, Edmund-Travel-Europe.

De Waal, Edmund

Ephrussi family

Subject(s):

Jewish bankers -- Europe -- Biography.

Jewish businesspeople -- Europe -- Biography.

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- Biography.

Netsukes -- Private collections -- England -- London.

Geographic Term:

England -- London

Europe

Genre:

Biography.

travelog (performed works genre)

Holds:

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Salem Main Library	909.04924 De Waal 2012	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

The definitive illustrated edition of the international bestseller

Two hundred and sixty-four Japanese wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great-uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the netsuke, they unlocked a far more dramatic story than he could ever have imagined.

From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siècle Paris, from occupied Vienna to postwar Tokyo, de Waal traces the netsuke's journey through generations of his remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century. With sumptuous photographs of the netsuke collection and full-color images from de Waal's family archive, the illustrated edition of The Hare with Amber Eyes transforms a deeply intimate saga into a work of visual art.

Author Notes

Edmund de Waal is one of the world's leading ceramic artists, and his porcelain is held in many major international collections. His bestselling memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes , was shortlisted for numerous prizes and won the Costa Biography Award and the RSL Ondaatje Prize.