The hare with amber eyes : a hidden inheritance / Edmund de Waal.
Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus, 2010Description: 354 p. ill., maps, ports. 20 cm001: 13578ISBN: 9780099539551Subject(s): De Waal, Edmund | Ephrussi family | Ephrussi, Charles 1849 - 1905 -- Art collections | Netsukes | Jewish families | Carvings | Sculptures | Art collections | CraftmanshipDDC classification: 920Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | MAIN LIBRARY Book | 920 DEW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 109721 |
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264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox- Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have imagined.
From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siecle Paris, from occupied Vienna to Tokyo, Edmund de Waal traces the netsuke's journey through generations of his remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century.
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- Family Tree (p. x)
- Preface (p. 1)
- 1 Paris 1871-1899
- Le West End (p. 21)
- Un lit de parade (p. 33)
- 'A mahout to guide her' (p. 38)
- 'So light, so soft to the touch' (p. 44)
- A box of children's sweets (p. 55)
- A fox with inlaid eyes, in wood (p. 62)
- The yellow armchair (p. 67)
- Monsieur Elstir's asparagus (p. 72)
- Even Ephrussi fell for it (p. 82)
- My small profits (p. 90)
- A 'very brilliant five o'clock' (p. 97)
- 2 Vienna 1899-1938
- Die Potemkinische Stadt (p. 111)
- Zionstrasse (p. 121)
- History as it happens (p. 126)
- 'A large square box such as children draw' (p. 138)
- 'Liberty Hall' (p. 145)
- The sweet young thing (p. 154)
- Once upon a time (p. 165)
- Types of the Old City (p. 169)
- Heil Wien! Heil Berlin! (p. 178)
- Litetally zero (p. 202)
- You must change your life (p. 212)
- Eldorado 5-0050 (p. 222)
- 3 Vienna, Kövesces, Tunbridge Wells, Vienna 1938-1947
- 'An ideal spot for mass marches' (p. 237)
- 'A never-to-be-repeated opportunity' (p. 248)
- 'Good for a single journey' (p. 260)
- The tears of things (p. 269)
- Anna's pocket (p. 277)
- 'All quite openly, publicly and legally' (p. 284)
- 4 Tokyo 1947-2001
- Takenoko (p. 293)
- Kodachrome (p. 301)
- Where did you get them? (p. 312)
- The real Japan (p. 319)
- On polish (p. 327)
- Coda: Tokyo, Odessa, London 2001-2009
- Jiro (p. 333)
- An astrolabe, a menzula, a globe (p. 336)
- Yellow/gold/red (p. 345)
- Acknowledgements (p. 353)
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