The Hare With Amber Eyes

De Waal, Edmund: The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance Der Hase mit den Bernsteinaugen, englische Ausgabe . A Hidden Inheritance . 2011 . 368 p. w. ill. . Random House UK, 2011. ISBN: 9780099539551
ungelesen, sehr guter Zustand; Rechnung mit MwSt.; unused/unread, very good condition; Bestellungen bis 15 Uhr werden am gleichen Werktag verschickt. ;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. Marcel Proust was briefly his secretary and used Charles as the model for the aesthete Swann in Remembrance of Things Past. Charles' 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, smuggled out of the huge Viennese palace (then occupied by Hitler's theorist on the 'Jewish Question'), one piece at a time, in the pocket of a loyal maid - and hidden in a straw mattress. 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 backdrop of a tumultuous century. And, in prose as elegant and precise as the netsuke themselves, he tells the story of a unique collection which passed from hand to hand - and which, in a twist of fate, found its way home to Japan. ISBN 9780099539551 , ISBN: 0099539551

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Edmund De Waal: Hare With Amber Eyes, CHATTO & WINDUS, November 2011 ISBN: 0701187166
Presents photographs of the celebrated netsuke collection - 264 Japanese wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siecle Paris, from occupied Vienna to post-war Tokyo, the author traces the netsuke's journey through generations of his family.

NEW 234X37X170 37 mm x 170 mm x 234 mm

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