A familys century of art and loss from the worlds largest community of readers. Hardcover edition published by farrar, straus and giroux, new york, 2010. The ephrussis lost almost everything in 1938 when the nazis aryanized their property. The number one sunday times bestseller winner of the 2010 costa biography award 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox. See all 9 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. I have spent the last few years writing a very personal book. The white road for free in a convenient format epub, pdf, fb2, mobi. Tanya harrod, the times literary supplement a beautiful and unusual book. Having spent thirty years making beautiful pots which are then sold, collected, and handed on he has a particular sense of the secret lives of objects. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc. Running parallel with the fate of these tiny sculptures the hare with amber eyes is one of them is the fate of the family who possessed them, and still does.
He is known for his largescale installations of porcelain vessels often created in response to collections and archives or the history of a particular place. The hare with amber eyes king county library system overdrive. The discussion was a rousing success, mainly because the group was so divided and so emphatic in sharing their views. His bestselling memoir, the hare with amber eyes, was shortlisted for numerous prizes and won the costa biography award and the rsl ondaatje prize. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 368 pages and is available in hardcover format. The hare with amber eyes east sussex county council.
When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny japanese wood and ivory. Extraordinary new nonfiction, a gripping blend of history and memoir, by the author of the awardwinning and bestselling international sensation, the hare with the amber eyes. The hare with amber eyes is rich in epiphanic moments. The ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the rothschilds, who burned like a comet in nineteenthcentury paris and vienna society.
Praise for a family memoir written with a grace and modesty that almost belie the sweep of its contents. The hare with amber eyes is the beautifully wrought, poetic work of a caretaker. Free download or read online the hare with amber eyes. It is the biography of a collection and the biography of my family. The hare with amber eyes is a wondrous book, as lustrous and exquisitely crafted as the netsuke at its heart. The hare with amber eyes the free library of philadelphia. Sweeping yet intimate, it is a highly original meditation on art, history, and family, as elegant and precise as the netsuke themselves. This is a finely written and detailed chronology, superbly evocative of time and place, with beautifully and lovingly drawn portraits of family members both black and white sheep that. The muchacclaimed the hare with amber eyes, winner of numerous awards and praised unanimously in the british press, was recently. Yet by the end of world war ii, almost the only thing remaining of their vast empire was a collection of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of.
He employs his tender yet uncompromising eye and tactile senses in letting both lovely japanese netsuke tiny, detailed sculpture, and otherwise dry and dusty ledgers and lists tell a fascinating story. At a deeper level, though, hare is about something more, just as marcel prousts masterpiece was about something more than the trappings of high society. The definitive illustrated edition of the international bestsellertwo hundred and sixtyfour japanese wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox. The hare with amber eyes king county library system. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The hare with amber eyes east sussex county council overdrive. The hare with amber eyes npr coverage of the hare with amber eyes. The potter believes in the existential hum of objects, but this tale of a family heirloom misses the bigger picture.
If you are the publisher or author of this book and. The main characters of this non fiction, history story are. As with remembrance of things past, it uses the grandeur to light up interior matters. Review the hare with amber eyes a hidden inheritance pdf an economist book of the year costa book award winner for biography. After our lunch hed open the sliding doors of the long vitrine that took up most of one wall of the sitting room and would get out the netsuke one by one. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the hare with amber eyes. Paris 18711899 vienna 18991938 vienna kovecses, tunbridge wells, vienna 19381947 tokyo 19472001 tokyo, odessa, london 20012009.
The hare with amber eyes the books the book club abc tv. An intimate narrative history of porcelain, structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted. In 2011 he was awarded the order of the british empire obe for service to the arts. The discussion started with the artifacts around which the book is formed, the japanese netsuke, small, carve. A tiger, all shoulder and feet, turning round to snarl. Le west end one sunny april day i set out to find charles.
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