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The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

by Edmund de Waal
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Tracing netsuke reveals a family's tumultuous history.

If you're moved by stories that weave personal family narratives with historical events, "The Hare With Amber Eyes" can be a profound experience. Edmund de Waal elegantly combines art, history, and memoir as he follows the journey of tiny Japanese carvings through generations. This book will resonate for its unique blend of the deeply personal with the sweep of world history, all enriched with the visual appeal of an illustrated edition.

  • Costa Book Award for Biography (2010)
  • J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography Nominee (2011)
  • The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize (2011)
  • Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2011)
  • Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize Nominee (2011)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

by Edmund de Waal
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ISBN: 9780374168285
Authors: Edmund de Waal
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date of Publication: 2012-11-13
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: History, Biographies & Memoirs, Art
Related Topics: Memoir, World War II, Biography, Art History, Historical, Art and Photography, European History, Biography Memoir
Goodreads rating: 3.95
(rated by 58060 readers)

Description

The definitive illustrated edition of the international bestseller. Two hundred and sixty-four Japanese wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great-uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the netsuke, they unlocked a far more dramatic story than he could ever have imagined. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siècle Paris, from occupied Vienna to postwar Tokyo, de Waal traces the netsuke's journey through generations of his remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century. With sumptuous photographs of the netsuke collection and full-color images from de Waal's family archive, the illustrated edition of The Hare with Amber Eyes transforms a deeply intimate saga into a work of visual art.
 

Tracing netsuke reveals a family's tumultuous history.

If you're moved by stories that weave personal family narratives with historical events, "The Hare With Amber Eyes" can be a profound experience. Edmund de Waal elegantly combines art, history, and memoir as he follows the journey of tiny Japanese carvings through generations. This book will resonate for its unique blend of the deeply personal with the sweep of world history, all enriched with the visual appeal of an illustrated edition.

  • Costa Book Award for Biography (2010)
  • J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography Nominee (2011)
  • The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize (2011)
  • Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2011)
  • Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize Nominee (2011)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.