The Hare With Amber Eyes: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller

Author(s): Edmund de Waal

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"264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox- potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the netsuke, they unlocked a story far larger than he could ever have imagined The Ephrussis came from Odessa, and at one time were the largest grain exporters in the world; in the 1870s, Charles Ephrussi was part of a wealthy new generation settling in Paris. Charles s passion was collecting; the netsuke, bought when Japanese objects were all the rage in the salons, were sent as a wedding present to his banker cousin in Vienna. Later, three children including a young Ignace would play with the netsuke as history reverberated around them. The Anschluss and Second World War swept the Ephrussis to the brink of oblivion. Almost all that remained of their vast empire was the netsuke collection, dramatically saved by a loyal maid when their huge Viennese palace was occupied. In this stunningly original memoir, Edmund de Waal travels the world to stand in the great buildings his forebears once inhabited. He traces the network of a remarkable family against the


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The history of a family through 264 objects - set against a turbulent century - from an acclaimed writer and potter

Winner of Galaxy National Book Awards: National Book Tokens New Writer of the Year 2010 and Costa Biography Book Award 2010 and Ondaatje Prize 2011

Edmund de Waal's porcelain is shown in many museum collections round the world and he has recently made installations for the V&A and Tate Britain. He was apprenticed as a potter, studied in Japan and read English at Cambridge. He is Professor of Ceramics at the University of Westminster and lives in London with his family.

General Fields

  • : 9780099539551
  • : Random House UK
  • : VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
  • : 0.352
  • : March 2011
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 27mm
  • : February 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Edmund de Waal
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 736.68092
  • : 368
  • : BG
  • : illustrations