by Edmund De Waal · Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783423142120
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«Der Hase mit den Bernsteinaugen» is Edmund de Waal's family chronicle, published by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (352 pages, in German).
Edmund de Waal reconstructs the history of the Ephrussi, Jewish bankers from Odessa, through 264 netsuke, Japanese wood and ivory carvings. The collection travels from Belle Époque Paris to fin-de-siècle Vienna, survives Nazi plunder thanks to a maid, and reaches London: a chronicle of memory, loss, and the endurance of objects.
Original title: The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss. German translation by Brigitte Hilzensauer; subtitle of this edition: Das verborgene Erbe der Familie Ephrussi.
For readers of historical memoirs, biographies, and family chronicles, and for those interested in European Jewish history and art.
Edmund Arthur Lowndes de Waal, is an English contemporary artist, potter and author. He is known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels often created in response to collections and archives or the history of a particular place. De Waal's book The Hare with Amber Eyes was awarded the Costa Book Award for Biography, Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize in 2011 and Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for Non-Fiction in 2015. De Waal's second book, The White Road, tracing his journey to discover the history of porcelain, was released in 2015.
