The Hare with Amber Eyes: The Illustrated Edition
by De Waal, Edmund
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0701187166
- ISBN 13
- 9780701187163
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 2011. Pictorial boards, 418 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour), genealogical tables, maps, portraits; 24 cm. Ribbon bookmark. Revised and Illustrated Edition. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear. First thus. The author, a famous ceramicist, relates the story of his inheritance: 360 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings. "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 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." - Publisher.. 2nd. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo.
Synopsis
Winner of Costa (formerly Whitbread) Biography Award (2010)
Reviews
On Oct 28 2010, Kass33 said:
This is a wonderful book - I couldn't put it down. It is an account of a collection of netsuke owned by a succession of related family from 1871 to the present. The author is the fourth owner of the 264 netsukes. You also get a very personal look at both European and Japanese history and culture during this time, including the harrowing survival of the collection during the holocaust thanks to a beloved servant. Edmund de Waal brings to life what actually living through tumultuous times were like, including France in the 70's, pre-WWII and WWII in Vienna, ex-pats living in Japan after WWII plus some understanding of the life of a world-famous potter in England today Don't miss this book.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
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- 122012
- Title
- The Hare with Amber Eyes: The Illustrated Edition
- Author
- De Waal, Edmund
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 2nd
- ISBN 10
- 0701187166
- ISBN 13
- 9780701187163
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2011
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Asian / Japanese; Genre & Subject / Religious / Judaica; Media / Ivory & Bone;
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