The Hare With Amber Eyes : : a Hidden Inheritance

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Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 264 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.

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Tedious submitted by sushai on July 21, 2019, 9:04pm I am not really sure who the audience for this book was. Having become recently introduced to netsuke through the amazing collection at the Toledo Museum of Art, I thought the story of this collection, especially the hare with the amber eyes, would be central to the book. Instead, it's a wealthy man's story of his wealthy ancestors through the generations and their art collections that they developed because they literally had more money than they knew what to do with. The highlights are the snippets of history, especially how his Jewish ancestors were discriminated against and their particular horrors in Vienna at the beginning of WWII. But most of it was overly detailed, and even with all the detail the hare with the amber eyes never even comes into play.
I would have liked to see this story told as historical fiction from the point of view of Elisabeth, who is a strong and interesting character whose parts of the story are most interesting.

A Story of Art Collectors submitted by kferguson on July 22, 2019, 11:58am This is a well written story of art collectors and family