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The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

Edmund de Waal

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Nov 12, 2019 Monika rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-in-english

Netsuke - tiny Japanese figures carved in wood or ivory, are the excuse for a magnificent voyage through two centuries.
From Odessa to Paris, Vienna and Tunbridge Wells to Tokyo. From a luxurious life among the most famous artists of fin de siècle, through the horrors of I and II World Wars, to a forced emigration to England and post-war Japan.

Great anecdotes about famous poets and painters, wonderful portraits of all the cities, people and their daily habits, detailed descriptions of interiors ...more

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Jul 25, 2013 Katherine (Kat) Nagel rated it it was amazing

Shelves: history, nonfiction

I'm not usually fond of biographies. This is an exception. It isn't a birth-to-death review of a life, or even a snapshot of a moment in history. This very personal memoir is also a detective story, of sorts, as the author traces the history of an art collection and explores the lives of the family members who have owned it over the years. The lyrical descriptions of the individual pieces, the (mostly) sympathetic character analysis of various relatives, and the horrors of Kristalnacht and its a ...more

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