The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance - Edmund de Waal

The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

Edmund de Waal

Binding: Soft cover  

Book Condition: Good condition except for some age marks and dust residue on the outside of the pages

Edition: 2011

WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance is a family memoir by British ceramicist Edmund de Waal. De Waal tells the story of his family, the Ephrussi, once a very wealthy European Jewish banking dynasty, centred in Odessa, Vienna and Paris, and peers of the Rothschild family. The Ephrussis lost almost everything in 1938 when the Nazis confiscated their property,[1] and were unable to recover most of their property after the war, including priceless artwork; an easily hidden collection of 264 Japanese netsuke miniature sculptures was saved, tucked away inside a mattress by Anna, a loyal maid at Palais Ephrussi in Vienna during the war years. The collection has been passed down through five generations of the Ephrussi family, providing a common thread for the story of its fortunes from 1871 to 2009.

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