Hare with Amber Eyes

A Hidden Inheritance

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Edmund de Waal: Hare with Amber Eyes (2010, Penguin Random House)

English language

Published 2010 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-1-4070-5249-6
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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.

22 editions

Subjects

  • Netsukes
  • Jews, biography
  • Art, private collections
  • Jewish families
  • Bankers
  • Businesspeople, biography
  • Art, collectors and collecting