Farrar Straus Giroux | ISBN:0374168288 | File Type: PDF, 432 pages | File size: 63.Mb | Nov. 13th, 2012
General Biography Autobiography: A Hidden Inheritance The definitive illustrated edition of the international bestseller Two hundred and sixty four Japanese wood and ivory carvings none of them larger than a matchbox Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie s Tokyo apartment When he later inherited the netsuke they unlocked a far more dramatic story than he cod ever have imagined From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siecle aris from occupied Vienna to postwar Tokyo de Waal traces the netsuke s journey through generations of his remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumtuous century With sumptuous photographs of the netsuke collection and fl color images from de Waal s family archive the illustrated edition of The Hare with Amber Eyes transforms a deeply intimate saga into a work of visual art
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