The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund De Waal

The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund De Waal

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 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 The Hare with Amber Eyes, 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.

Edmund de Waal is a British artist, and author of The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010) and The White Road (2015). He is most well known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels and has received several awards and honours for his work. Charlotte Vignon is curator of Decorative Arts at The Frick Collection, as well as a visiting associate professor at the Bard Graduate Center, New York.

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ISBN 13	9781250811271
ISBN 10	1250811279
Title	The Hare with Amber Eyes
Author	Edmund De Waal
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	St Martin's Press
Year published	2021-05-04
Number of pages	368
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