Book
The hare with amber eyes : a hidden inheritance / Edmund de Waal.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780312569372 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 354 pages : illustrations, genealogical table, maps ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2011]
- Copyright: ©2010
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Originally published in 2010 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain, as The hare with amber eyes: a hidden inheritance"--Title page verso. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Ephrussi family. De Waal, Edmund > Travel > Europe. Jewish bankers > Europe > Biography. Jewish businesspeople > Europe > Biography. Art > Collectors and collecting > Europe > Biography. Netsukes > Private collections > England > London. |
| Genre: | Biographies. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Branch | 909.0492400922 Ephru-D | 31681010178093 | NONFICPBK | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Traces the parallel stories of 19th-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. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
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. - McMillan Palgrave
A New York Times Bestseller
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 potsâwhich are then sold, collected, and handed onâhe 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.
