The hare with amber eyes : a hidden inheritance /
De Waal, Edmund.
The hare with amber eyes : a hidden inheritance / Edmund de Waal. - London : Vintage, 2011. - 354 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 20 cm.
Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2010.
264 wood and ivory carvings of animals, plants and people, none of them larger than a matchbox; apprentice potter Edmund de Waal was entranced by the collection when he first encountered it in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. When he inherited them, he discovered that they unlocked a story larger than he could have imagined.
COSTA Biography Award 2010
9780099539551 (pbk.) : £8.99 0099539551 (Paper)
De Waal, Edmund--Family.
Ephrussi family.
Ephrussi, Charles, 1849-1905 --Art collections.
Netsukes--Private collections
Jewish families--History--Europe
Biography.
Biography: general
Autobiography: general
Carvings: artworks
Ceramic & glass: artworks
General & world history
Family history, tracing ancestors
NK6050
823.914 DEW
The hare with amber eyes : a hidden inheritance / Edmund de Waal. - London : Vintage, 2011. - 354 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 20 cm.
Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2010.
264 wood and ivory carvings of animals, plants and people, none of them larger than a matchbox; apprentice potter Edmund de Waal was entranced by the collection when he first encountered it in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. When he inherited them, he discovered that they unlocked a story larger than he could have imagined.
COSTA Biography Award 2010
9780099539551 (pbk.) : £8.99 0099539551 (Paper)
De Waal, Edmund--Family.
Ephrussi family.
Ephrussi, Charles, 1849-1905 --Art collections.
Netsukes--Private collections
Jewish families--History--Europe
Biography.
Biography: general
Autobiography: general
Carvings: artworks
Ceramic & glass: artworks
General & world history
Family history, tracing ancestors
NK6050
823.914 DEW