Title
The hare with amber eyes : a family's century of art and loss / Edmund de Waal.
Edition
1st American ed.
Description
353 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 22 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Paris 1871-1899 Vienna 1899-1938 Vienna Kövecses, Tunbridge Wells, Vienna 1938-1947 Tokyo 1947-2001 Tokyo, Odessa, London 2001-2009.
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.
Note
"Originally published in 2010 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain, as The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance."
Location
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
