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"A family memoir written with a grace and modesty that almost belie the sweep of its contents: Proust, Rilke, Japanese art, the rue de Monceau, Vienna during the Second World War. The most enchanting history lesson imaginable." --The New Yorker
"An extraordinary history...A wondrous book, as lustrous and exquisitely crafted as the netsuke at its heart." --The Christian Science Monitor
"A lovely, gripping book." --The Wall Street Journal
"Enthralling . . . [de Waal's] essayistic exploration of his family's past pointedly avoids any sentimentality . . . The Hare with Amber Eyes belongs on the same shelf with Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World
"This is a book Sebald would have loved." --The Irish Times
"At one level [Edmund de Waal] writes in vivid detail of how the fortunes were used to establish the Ephrussis' lavish lives and high positions in Paris and Vienna society. And, as Jews, of their vulnerability: the Paris family shaken by turn-of-the century anti-Semitism surging out of the Dreyfus affair; the Vienna branch utterly destroyed in Hitler's 1937 Anschluss . . . At a deeper level, though, Hare is about something more, just as Marcel Proust's masterpiece was about something more than the trappings of high society. As with Remembrance of Things Past, it uses the grandeur to light up interior matters: aspirations, passions, their passing; all in a duel, and a duet, of elegy and irony." --Richard Eder, The Boston Globe
"Absorbing . . . In this book about people who defined themselves by the objects they owned, de Waal demonstrates that human stories are more powerful than even the greatest works of art." --Adam Kirsch, The New Republic
"Delicately constructed and wonderfully nuanced . . . There are many family memoirs whose stories are as enticing as Edmund de Waal's. There are few, though, whose raw material has been crafted into quite such an engrossing and exquisitely written book as The Hare with Amber Eyes . . . One of the great triumphs of The Hare with Amber Eyes . . . is not just the assiduous way in which de Waal interrogates his raw evidence--scattered articles and newspaper cuttings, old paintings, forgotten buildings--but the way he summons up different eras so evocatively . . . [De Waal] is, too, as you would expect of a potter, wonderfully tactile in his investigations, interrogating the physical feel of the Ephrussis' different buildings, touching surfaces, assessing materials. This sensuality transmits itself also to his prose, which is beautiful to read--lithe and precise, crisp and delicate. The result is a memoir of the very first rank, one full of grace, economy, and extraordinary emotion." --Andrew Holgate, The Barnes & Noble Review
"Remarkable . . . To be handed a story as durable and exquisitely crafted as this is a rare pleasure . . . Like the netsuke themselves, this book is impossible to put down. You have in your hands a masterpiece." --Frances Wilson, The Sunday Times (London)
"From a hard and vast archival mass of journals, memoirs, newspaper clippings and art-history books, Mr. de Waal has fashioned, stroke by minuscule stroke, a book as fresh with detail as if it had been written from life, and as full of beauty and whimsy as a netsuke from the hands of a master carver. Buy two copies of his book; keep one and give the other to your closest bookish friend." --The Economist
"What a treat of a book! It projects an iridescent mirage that once was real, a pageant of exquisite fragility, an aesthetic passion somehow surviving the brutalities of history. Mr. de Waal's nostalgia is tart, tactile, marvelously nuanced." --Frederic Morton, author of A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888/1889 and The Rothschilds: Portrait of a Dynasty
"A self-questioning, witty, sharply perceptive book . . . The Hare with Amber Eyes is rich in epiphanic moments . . . By writing objects into his family story [de Waal] has achieved something remarkable." --Tanya Harrod, The Times Literary Supplement
"A beautiful and unusual book . . . [A] unique memoir of [de Waal's] family . . . De Waal has a mystical ability to so inhabit the long-gone moment as to seem to suspend inexorable history, personal and impersonal . . . A work that succeeds in several known genres: as family memoir, travel literature (de Waal's Japan is the nearest thing to being there, and over decades), essays on migration and exile, on cultural misperceptions, and on de Waal's attempt to define his relationship with his own kaolin creations. His book is also a new genre, unnamed and maybe unnameable." --Veronica Horwell, The Guardian
"Part family memoir, part Proustian confession, subtle, spare and elegant." --Hilary Spurling, The Independent
"A marvelously absorbing synthesis of art history, detective story and memoir . . . A nimble history of one of the richest European families at the turn of the century . . . Remarkable." --Kirkus Reviews
A New York Times Bestseller
An Economist Book of the Year
Costa Book Award Winner for Biography
Galaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award)
Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty years making beautiful pots—which are then sold, collected, and handed on—he has a particular sense of the secret lives of objects. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny Japanese wood and ivory carvings, called netsuke, he wanted to know who had touched and held them, and how the collection had managed to survive.
And so begins this extraordinarily moving memoir and detective story as de Waal discovers both the story of the netsuke and of his family, the Ephrussis, over five generations. A nineteenth-century banking dynasty in Paris and Vienna, the Ephrussis were as rich and respected as the Rothchilds. Yet by the end of the World War II, when the netsuke were hidden from the Nazis in Vienna, this collection of very small carvings was all that remained of their vast empire.
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Descripción Paperback. Condición: New. New softcover in printed wraps. (5.59 x 0.96 x 8.28 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes a family tree, maps, photos, and illustrations. 354 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty years making beautiful potsâ which are then sold, collected, and handed onâ he has a particular sense of the secret lives of objects. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny Japanese wood and ivory carvings, called netsuke, he wanted to know who had touched and held them, and how the collection had managed to survive. And so begins this extraordinarily moving memoir and detective story as de Waal discovers both the story of the netsuke and of his family, the Ephrussis, over five generations. A nineteenth-century banking dynasty in Paris and Vienna, the Ephrussis were as rich and respected as the Rothchilds. Yet by the end of the World War II, when the netsuke were hidden from the Nazis in Vienna, this collection of very small carvings was all that remained of their vast empire. Nº de ref. del artículo: 200788
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Descripción Soft cover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. Text/NEW & Bright. 2011, First Edition, 4th Printing. Softcover/Fine. Trace soiling to lower text block. Edmund de Waal, CBE (1964 -), master English ceramic artist & author. The Hare with Amber Eyes is a Japanese recumbent, ivory netsuke hare w/a raised left paw, c. 1880, held in the de Waal Family Collection.The book, under the same title, awarded the Costa Book Award for Biography, Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize in 2011 & the Windham?Campbell Literature Prize for Non-Fiction in 2015, was a NY Times Bestseller, and has been translated into some 25 languages. A family memoir, book traces the history of de Waal's Jewish relatives, the wealthy & influential Ephrussi family, by telling stories leading to a superb collection of 264 Japanese netsuke --- miniature ivory & wood sculptures traditionally used as toggles on men's kimono to secure carrying pouches. The collection of netsuke described were originally purchased by Charles Ephrussi in Paris in the 1870s, and were handed down through generations to be given to de Waal by his great-uncle Ignace "Iggie" Ephrussi, who settled in Tokyo after World War II. It has been published in more than 25 languages. 354 pgs in 37 chapters, presented in 4 parts Part I, Paris 1871-1899; II, Vienna 1899-1938; III, Vienna, Kovecses, Tunbridge Wells, Vienna 1938-1947; and IV, Tokyo 1947-2001, followed by Coda: tokyo, Odessa, London 2001-2009. New York NY, August 5, 2021. The Hare collectopmwish Museum will present The Hare with Amber Eyes, an exhibition that tells the story of the Ephrussi family?celebrated in the 2010 memoir and The New York Times bestseller of the same name by Edmund de Waal?and showcases the breadth and depth of their illustrious collection. The "Hare" collection is on view at the Jewish Museum from November 19, 2021 - May 15, 2022. Nº de ref. del artículo: 020614
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