The hare with amber eyes : a family's century of art and loss / Edmund de Waal.

Título:

ISBN:

9780374105976

Autor personal:

De Waal, Edmund

Edición:

First American edition.

Información de publicación:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.

Descripción física:

354 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 22 cm

Nota general:

"Originally published in 2010 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain, as The hare with amber eyes: a hidden inheritance"--T.p. verso.

Síntesis:

Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 360 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.

Materia personal:

Ephrussi family

Ephrussi, Charles, 1849-1905-Art collections.

De Waal, Edmund-Travel-Europe.

De Waal, Edmund-Family.

DAK_SUBJECT_TERM_DISPLAY:

Netsukes -- Private collections--England--London.

Art -- Collectors and collecting--Europe -- Biography.

Jewish bankers--Europe -- Biography.

Jewish businesspeople--Europe -- Biography.

DAK_OCLC_NUMBER:

ocn611151748