The Hare with Amber Eyes

The Hare with Amber Eyes

by Edmund de Waal

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.

2010 368 pages Farrar Straus Giroux 1 curator

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