The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

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Having spent 30 years making beautiful pots, de Waal has a particular sense of the secret lives of objects. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny Japanese wood and ivory carvings, he wanted to know who had touched and held them, and how the collection had managed to survive. And so begins this extraordinarily moving memoir and detective story.

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance 2012, MacMillan Audio, New York

ISBN-13: 9781427230065

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ISBN-13: 9780312569372

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The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

2012, Audiobook CD

ISBN-13:

9781427230065

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

2011, Trade paperback

ISBN-13:

9780312569372

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Marilou G

Jul 25, 2013

Excellent, riveting book, a little slow at the beginning but then you can't put it down.

carol w

Oct 18, 2012

pictures worth thousands of words

A wonderful page-turning historical story, newly illuminated by masses of photos and maps and documents. I don't own two copies of many books, but this duplicate is so worth it!

Susan G

May 3, 2012

More than biography

The author traces his inheritance of a netsuke collection back to the ancestor who first acquired it. In so doing he tells us of the lives of those who have owned it, and of the times and places in which they lived. The collection amazingly survived even a Nazi incursion into the very house where they were displayed, though much else was destroyed; it was preserved by a German woman who was loyal to this Jewish family.

bleakbird

Dec 1, 2011

My favorite book this year!

This is fascinating, beautifully written and sensitively observed. I am giving it to those I love the most.

Reginald R

Jul 8, 2011

Art & history

This is not jjust all about netsuke, a collection of which the author has inherited, but an excellent historical narrative, after a Parisian episode, of what life was like in Austria, and Vienna in particular, before and after the dissolution and dismemberment in 1918-19 of th Austro-Hungarian Empire, and later, in 1938-39, of the Nazi political, cultural and economic takeover of the country. The Jewish predicament during all these dramatic happenings is espeacially well presented.

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