The Hare with Amber Eyes (Illustrated Edition)

By - De Waal, Edmund

Floor - Floor 4

Published - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2012

ISBN 10 - 0374168288

ISBN 13 - 9780374168285

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Netsukes--Private collections

Shelf No - 1

Call Number - 909.0492 WAA

Physical Description - 418 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm

Notes - Includes Index

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The definitive illustrated edition of the international bestseller Two hundred and sixty-four Japanese wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger 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 far more dramatic story than he could ever have imagined. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siècle Paris, from occupied Vienna to postwar Tokyo, de Waal traces the netsuke's journey through generations of his remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century. With sumptuous photographs of the netsuke collection and full-color images from de Waal's family archive, the illustrated edition of The Hare with Amber Eyes transforms a deeply intimate saga into a work of visual art.

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