The hare with amber eyes : a family's century of art and loss / Edmund de Waal.

Author/creator De Waal, Edmund
Format Book
Edition1st American ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Description353 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents Paris 1871-1899 -- Vienna 1899-1938 -- Vienna Kövecses, Tunbridge Wells, Vienna 1938-1947 -- Tokyo 1947-2001 -- Tokyo, Odessa, London 2001-2009.
Abstract 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.
General note"Originally published in 2010 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain, as The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance."
LCCN 2010025539
ISBN9780374105976 (alk. paper)
ISBN0374105979 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks HG1552.E64 D49 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold