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The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
Edmund de Waal, a master potter (with works displayed in many museum collections around the world) who also writes, unfolds for readers the deeply personal story of a remarkable family, a small and exquisite collection of netsuke, and a tumultuous century of change and upheaval . . .
Sweeping yet intimate, The Hare with Amber Eyes is a highly original meditation on art, history, and family, that is as elegant and precise as the netsuke themselves.
“From a hard and vast archival mass of journals, memoirs, newspaper clippings and art-history books, Mr. de Waal has fashioned 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