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The Hare With Amber Eyes A Hidden Inheritance

by Edmund De Waal, Carles Miró Jordana, Michael Maloney

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Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 360 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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