The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (773 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B007HBZPDC |
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| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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And, in prose as elegant and precise as the netsuke themselves, he tells the story of a unique collection which passed from hand to hand - and which, in a twist of fate, found its way home to Japan. A total of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his Great Uncle Iggie. He traces the network of a remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century. This audio edition also features an interview with Edmund De Waal from the Vintage Books podcast.. Marcel Proust was briefly his secretary and used Charles as the model for the aesthete Swann in Remembrance of Things Past. Almost all that remained of their vast empire was the netsuke collection, smuggled out of the huge Viennese palace (then occup
"It's not everyone's cup of tea, but I loved this book." according to Lolly. My sister and I have different taste in most things. When I told her how much I enjoyed reading this book, she told me she couldn't get past the first chapter. She loves plot driven books and this isn't that. I on the other hand prefer atmospheric books with interesting characters, which is precisely what this is.The author is not an historian and the less compelling parts of the book stem from news paper research and official documents. The book really came alive for me when the author drew from family correspondence and used his artist's eye to describe the objects, homes and daily li. Kimiko said Superfluous Details Since We Are Tracing Lineage in Real Time. This book is too detailed and scattered for my taste. Moreover, the author ponders on what it was like for his ancestors and the journey of the netsuke he inherited but he never digs deeper. Admittedly, I couldn't read the last few chapters of the book -- it felt like torture. I feel like we are with the author as he traces his lineage in real time instead of him researching first and then writing about it. I don't want to go to the genealogy library with him or walk the ruins of his ancestors' residencies; instead, show me what it was like after the fact.. Remembrance of time past R. G. Saunders This is a mesmerising many-layered book. The fascinating narrative of the fabulously wealthy Jewish Ephrussi family moves through the decades from commercial Odessa to the Paris of the Impressionists and artistic salons to the brutal destruction of the Anschluss of 1938 in Vienna and a familial diaspora over three continents. Parallel to this, we follow with the author his own emotive journey to reclaim the lives lived in the vanished rooms of his forbears. This he does sensitively and successfully, imagining his way there through archives, letters and contemporary fiction. He visits al