The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

264 Japanese wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a 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 story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have imagined.From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siècle Paris, from occupied Vienna to post-war Tokyo, Edmund de Waal traces the netsuke's journey through generations of his remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century.