{"product_id":"the-hare-with-amber-eyes-a-hidden-inheritance-1","title":"The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance","description":"\u003cp\u003eA New York Times Bestseller\u003cbr\u003eAn Economist Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eCosta Book Award Winner for Biography\u003cbr\u003eGalaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen he inherited a collection of 264 tiny Japanese wood and ivory carvings, called netsuke, he wanted to know who had touched and held them, and how the collection had managed to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd so begins this extraordinarily moving memoir and detective story as de Waal discovers both the story of the netsuke and of his family, the Ephrussis, over five generations. A nineteenth-century banking dynasty in Paris and Vienna, the Ephrussis were as rich and respected as the Rothchilds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet by the end of the World War II, when the netsuke were hidden from the Nazis in Vienna, this collection of very small carvings was all that remained of their vast empire.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edmund de Waal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46805102559401,"sku":"9780312569372","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9780312569372.jpg?v=1771040548","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/the-hare-with-amber-eyes-a-hidden-inheritance-1","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}