Sep 17, 20 the hare with amber eyes was fabulous but could not be read in a sitting. I wrote about this book and its paris connections back in 2011 art, books, paris. Who was your favourite character in the book and why. A site dedicated to book lovers providing a forum to discover and share commentary about the books and authors they enjoy. Ive been a fan of the hare with amber eyes for years. 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. Their survival is wondrous, but i dont think their presence turns the hare with amber eyes from memoir into book of ideas, as. Ive had this book on my toread list for over a year, and finally read it for gibsons book club. The life of an opposition caricaturist and romantic book illustrator in paris under the july monarchy by clive f.
Much of the hare with amber eyes is about trying to discover who people are by the objects they own and the objects they value. This is a masterful work of art, a spontaneous wordsmith putting history down in lyrical form. Would you have entitled the book the hare with amber eyes, or something completely different. When eating a good meal, no matter how delicious, innovative and satisfying the dish, there comes a point of fullness where we have to stop consumption or spoil. He would pass me one and wed look at it together, and then id put it. The hare with the amber eyes, is a personal story but one that is teemed with history. This book is my journey to the places in which this collection lived. Aug 31, 2010 the hare with amber eyes belongs on the same shelf with vladimir nabokovs speak, memory. The hare in the title is a netsuke, a small japanese carving that attached to the end of a cord on a small pouch that men hung on their kimono sashes to serve as a sort of external pocket. The hare with amber eyes belongs on the same shelf with vladimir nabokovs speak, memory.
Jul 03, 2015 ive been a fan of the hare with amber eyes for years. When eating a good meal, no matter how delicious, innovative and satisfying the dish, there comes a point of fullness where we have to stop consumption or spoil the pleasure. The hare with amber eyes a closer look at the netsuke youtube. Charles, who assembled the collection, was a dandyish art collector who settled in paris at the age of 21, wrote art criticism and a book on durer and patronized the early impressionists. The hare with amber eyes in vienna american girls art club. Aug 31, 2010 there are few, though, whose raw material has been crafted into quite such an engrossing and exquisitely written book as the hare with amber eyes. 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. The hare with amber eyes, and it has been with me ever since. A familys century of art and loss is the story of the ephrussis, a great jewish family that lived in austria but was displaced with the advent of the nazis. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
Of course, the hare with amber eyes was only one of the netsuke. A rich tale of the pleasure and pains of what it is to be human bettany hughes. 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. The familys fabulous wealth derived from the graintrading business, operating between paris and vienna. This study guide consists of approximately 34 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your. Michael dirda, the washington post book world this is a book sebald would have loved. Jan 30, 2011 the hare with amber eyes a familys century of art and loss. The hare with amber eyes a closer look at the netsuke.
One of the great triumphs of the hare with amber eyes. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over. The hare with amber eyes in vienna american girls art. A wellknown british potter, waal inherited a collection of 264 japanese netsukessmall elaborate carvings made of ivory or wood and used as toggles on the cords holding containers inros to the sash of a mans traditional japanese kimono. The hare with amber eyes npr coverage of the hare with amber eyes. There are few, though, whose raw material has been crafted into quite such an engrossing and exquisitely written book as the hare with amber eyes. The hare with amber eyes the books the book club abc tv. The hare with amber eyes a familys century of art and loss. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the hare with amber eyes. Its the most beautiful book ive read this year tracy chevalier, the daily telegraph published january 2011 by vintage books uk category. Content includes books from bestselling, midlist and debut authors. If you had to make a bet, a good one would be that a book about netsuke. The hare with amber eyes was fabulous but could not be read in a sitting. With languages, you can move from one social situation to another.
A tiger, all shoulder and feet, turning round to snarl. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Edmund shares his story about discovering the history of his family while in search of the history of a japanese netsuke. The hare with amber eyes, a journey through the history of a family in objects, is his most personal book. Writer of the hare with amber eyes tells why a new austrian law is behind the first gathering at his ancestral jewish home since 1938. Edmund was apprenticed as a potter, studied in japan, and read english literature at cambridge university. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny japanese wood. 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. Writer of the hare with amber eyes tells why a new austrian law is behind the first gathering at his ancestral jewish home since 1938 published. On recent travels to austria, i remembered there was a vienna connection to this book and i was determined to track it down. Sweeping yet intimate, it is a highly original meditation on art, history, and family, as elegant and precise as the netsuke themselves. Jun 29, 2010 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox.
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