| Authors: |
De Waal, Edmund.
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| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
Jewish bankers -- Europe -- Biography.
Jewish businesspeople -- Europe -- Biography.
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- Biography.
Netsukes -- Private collections -- England -- London.
Ephrussi family.
De Waal, Edmund -- Travel -- Europe.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. |
| Description: |
354 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780374105976 (alk. paper) 0374105979 |
| Notes: |
"Originally published in 2010 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain, as The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance." |
| Contents: |
Paris 1871-1899 -- Vienna 1899-1938 -- Vienna Kövecses, Tunbridge Wells, Vienna 1938-1947 -- Tokyo 1947-2001 -- Tokyo, Odessa, London 2001-2009. |
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| Tags |
“top, 50”, 2012, bookclub, jackie, july, memoir |
| Rating: |
4 out of 5: They liked it |
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| Summary: |
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. |