The hare with amber eyes
Subtitle: a family's century of art and loss
By: Edmund de Waal
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780374105976
Subjects: Jewish businesspeople; Jewish bankers; Art; Family; Netsukes; Travel; Art collections; Collectors and collecting; Biography; Private collections
Description: 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.
Notes: "Originally published in 2010 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain, as The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance."

Costa Award, 2010.
Table of contents: title: Paris 1871-1899; title: Vienna 1899-1938; title: Vienna Ko vecses, Tunbridge Wells, Vienna 1938-1947; title: Tokyo 1947-2001; title: Tokyo, Odessa, London 2001-2009.