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The Hare with Amber Eyes

Edmund de Waal

What can a handful of tiny Japanese carvings reveal about a family's rise, loss and survival across Europe's upheavals?

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Author
Edmund de Waal

Why read it

  • You will see how objects carry the memory of the people who owned, hid and passed them on
  • You will learn how suspicion of a rich Jewish family built up in Paris long before the Nazis arrived
  • You will understand how one small inherited object can lead you through a whole family's past across cities and generations

Who it is for

  • Someone tracing their own family's history through objects and papers
  • A reader who loves art, collecting and the stories behind them
  • A reader of memoir drawn to Vienna, Paris and Tokyo

Contents

  1. EPHRUSSI FAMILY TREE
  2. | Preface
  3. PREFACE
  4. Part One | Paris 1871–1899
  5. 1. LE WEST END
  6. 2. UN LIT DE PARADE
  7. 3. ‘A MAHOUT TO GUIDE HER’
  8. 4. ‘SO LIGHT, SO SOFT TO THE TOUCH’
  9. 5. A BOX OF CHILDREN’S SWEETS
  10. 6. A FOX WITH INLAID EYES, IN WOOD
  11. 7. THE YELLOW ARMCHAIR
  12. 8. MONSIEUR ELSTIR’S ASPARAGUS
  13. 9. EVEN EPHRUSSI FELL FOR IT
  14. 10. MY SMALL PROFITS
  15. 11. A ‘VERY BRILLIANT FIVE O’CLOCK’
  16. Part Two | Vienna 1899–1938
  17. 12. DIE POTEMKINISCHE STADT
  18. 13. ZIONSTRASSE
  19. 14. HISTORY AS IT HAPPENS
  20. 15. ‘A LARGE SQUARE BOX SUCH AS CHILDREN DRAW’
  21. 16. LIBERTY HALL
  22. 17. THE SWEET YOUNG THING
  23. 18. ONCE UPON A TIME
  24. 19. TYPES OF THE OLD CITY
  25. 20. HEIL WIEN! HEIL BERLIN!
  26. 21. LITERALLY ZERO
  27. 22. YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR LIFE
  28. 23. ELDORADO 5–0050
  29. Part Three | Vienna, Kövecses, Tunbridge Wells, Vienna 1938–1947
  30. 24. ‘AN IDEAL SPOT FOR MASS MARCHES’
  31. 25. ‘A NEVER-TO-BE-REPEATED OPPORTUNITY’
  32. 26. ‘GOOD FOR A SINGLE JOURNEY’
  33. 27. THE TEARS OF THINGS
  34. 28. ANNA’S POCKET
  35. 29. ‘ALL QUITE OPENLY, PUBLICLY AND LEGALLY’
  36. Part Four | Tokyo 1947–2001
  37. 30. TAKENOKO
  38. 31. KODACHROME
  39. 32. WHERE DID YOU GET THEM?
  40. 33. THE REAL JAPAN
  41. 34. ON POLISH
  42. Coda | Tokyo, Odessa, London 2001–2009
  43. 35. JIRO
  44. 36. AN ASTROLABE, A MENZULA, A GLOBE
  45. 37. YELLOW/GOLD/RED
  46. Text Images

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