Title:
The hare with amber eyes : a hidden inheritance
Author:
Edition:
First revised and illustrated American edition
Publication Date:
2012
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012, ©2011.
Physical Description:
418 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781250811271
9780374168285
Abstract:
Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 264 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.
Contents:
pt. 1. Paris, 1871-1899 -- pt. 2. Vienna, 1899-1938 -- pt. 3. Vienna, Kovecses, Tunbridge Wells, Vienna, 1938-1947 -- pt. 4. Tokyo, 1947-2001 -- Coda. Tokyo, Odessa, London, 2001-2009.
Language:
English
