The Hare With Amber Eyes

The Hare With Amber Eyes (2010) by Edmund de Waal
Vintage | As sold by Crappy Old Books

A delicate, dazzling memoir of art, memory, and the fragile threads of family legacy, The Hare With Amber Eyes traces the journey of a collection of tiny Japanese netsuke across generations and continents. Ceramicist Edmund de Waal inherits these intricate carvings and begins to uncover the dramatic story behind them — a tale stretching from the lavish salons of 19th-century Paris to the rubble of postwar Tokyo, and into the shadow of the Holocaust in Vienna.

With the eye of an artist and the soul of a historian, de Waal invites readers into an intimate excavation of identity, loss, and inheritance. This is not just the story of objects — it’s the story of people, of what survives when everything else is taken away.

Worn at the corners, much like the Ephrussi fortune. Smells faintly of old paper and existential dread — a classic find at Crappy Old Books.

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