{"product_id":"the-hare-with-amber-eyes-a-hidden-inheritance-9781250811271","title":"The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance","description":"\u003cp\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller\u003cbr\u003eAn\u003ci\u003e Economist\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year \u003cbr\u003eCosta Book Award Winner for Biography \u003cbr\u003eGalaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdmund 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd so begins \u003ci\u003eThe Hare with Amber Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e, this extraordinarily moving memoir and detective story as de Waal discovers both the origins 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo be handed a story as durable and exquisitely crafted as this is a rare pleasure. . . . This book is impossible to put down. You have in your hands a masterpiece. --\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times \u003c\/i\u003e(London) \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/04\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250811271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368","brand":"Edmund de Waal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39638097920181,"sku":"9781250811271","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_386cbdd3-8ba0-4ee8-b65e-ce7ffef9c742.jpg?v=1617680371","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-hare-with-amber-eyes-a-hidden-inheritance-9781250811271","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}