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The Hare With Amber Eyes

a Family's Century of Art and Loss
Aug 23, 2014WVMLBookClubTitles rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Edmund de Waal is descended from a grand, 19th century European banking family, the Ephrussi family. But by the end of the Second World War, virtually all that remained of their vast fortune was a collection of 264 Japanese wood and ivory carvings called netsuke. De Waal became the fifth generation to inherit this collection and this memoir is his account of the collection’s and his family’s history.