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THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES - EDMUND DE WAAL TASCH...

A New York Times BestsellerAn 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.

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