The Hare With Amber Eyes. A Hidden Inheritance

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2011
Edition: Reprint

Description: 354 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2010 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD264 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 Iggies 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 netsukes journey through generations of his remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century.

ISBN: 9780099539551