| Edition |
First Picador edition. |
| Description |
354 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Originally published in 2010 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain, as The hare with amber eyes: a hidden inheritance. |
| Summary |
Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 360 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family. |
| Contents |
Paris 1871-1899 -- Vienna 1899-1938 -- Vienna KoĢvecses, Tunbridge Wells, Vienna 1938-1947 -- Tokyo 1947-2001 -- Tokyo, Odessa, London 2001-2009. |
| Summary |
"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 extraordinary 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 Rothschilds. Yet by the end of 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. [4] of cover. |
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Ephrussi family.
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Jewish bankers -- Europe -- Biography.
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Jewish businesspeople -- Europe -- Biography.
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Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- Biography.
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Netsukes -- Private collections -- England -- London.
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De Waal, Edmund -- Travel -- Europe.
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De Waal, Edmund. (OCoLC)fst00424801
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Ephrussi family. (OCoLC)fst01769243
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Art -- Collectors and collecting.
(OCoLC)fst00815195
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Jewish bankers. (OCoLC)fst00982671
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Jewish businesspeople. (OCoLC)fst00982678
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Netsukes -- Private collections.
(OCoLC)fst01036209
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Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
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England -- London.
(OCoLC)fst01204271
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Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
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| ISBN |
9780312569372 |
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0312569378 |
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