Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The hare with amber eyes

Oclc number

611151748

Responsibility statement

Edmund de Waal

Sub title

a family's century of art and loss

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Paris 1871-1899 -- Vienna 1899-1938 -- Vienna Kövecses, Tunbridge Wells, Vienna 1938-1947 -- Tokyo 1947-2001 -- Tokyo, Odessa, London 2001-2009

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