THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES : A Hidden Inheritance

Edmund de Waal

ISBN 10: 0312569378 / ISBN 13: 9780312569372

Published by Picador/ Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, NY, 2011

About this Item

Text/NEW & Bright. 2011, First Edition, 4th Printing. Softcover/Fine. Trace soiling to lower text block. Edmund de Waal, CBE (1964 -), master English ceramic artist & author. The Hare with Amber Eyes is a Japanese recumbent, ivory netsuke hare w/a raised left paw, c. 1880, held in the de Waal Family Collection.The book, under the same title, awarded the Costa Book Award for Biography, Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize in 2011 & the Windham?Campbell Literature Prize for Non-Fiction in 2015, was a NY Times Bestseller, and has been translated into some 25 languages. A family memoir, book traces the history of de Waal's Jewish relatives, the wealthy & influential Ephrussi family, by telling stories leading to a superb collection of 264 Japanese netsuke --- miniature ivory & wood sculptures traditionally used as toggles on men's kimono to secure carrying pouches. The collection of netsuke described were originally purchased by Charles Ephrussi in Paris in the 1870s, and were handed down through generations to be given to de Waal by his great-uncle Ignace "Iggie" Ephrussi, who settled in Tokyo after World War II. It has been published in more than 25 languages. 354 pgs in 37 chapters, presented in 4 parts Part I, Paris 1871-1899; II, Vienna 1899-1938; III, Vienna, Kovecses, Tunbridge Wells, Vienna 1938-1947; and IV, Tokyo 1947-2001, followed by Coda: tokyo, Odessa, London 2001-2009. New York NY, August 5, 2021. The Hare collectopmwish Museum will present The Hare with Amber Eyes, an exhibition that tells the story of the Ephrussi family?celebrated in the 2010 memoir and The New York Times bestseller of the same name by Edmund de Waal?and showcases the breadth and depth of their illustrious collection. The "Hare" collection is on view at the Jewish Museum from November 19, 2021 - May 15, 2022.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES : A Hidden Inheritance
• Publisher: Picador/ Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312569378
• ISBN 13: 9780312569372
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued

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Synopsis

A New York Times Bestseller
An 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 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.

About the Author

Edmund de Waal's porcelain has been displayed in many museum collections around the world, and he has recently made an installation for the dome of the Victoria and Albert Museum. He was apprenticed as a potter, studied in Japan, and studied English at Cambridge. He is Professor of Ceramics at the University of Westminster and lives in London with his family.