The Hare with Amber Eyes

February Book Selection--Discussion Monday, February 20, 2017

Named as the book of the decade by independent booksellers and their readers

Won the Windham Campbell prize for non-fiction

"a family memoir by British ceramicist Edmund de Waal... the story of his family,

the Ephrussi, once a very wealthy European Jewish banking dynasty,

[who] lost almost everything in 1938 when the Nazis [confiscated] their property...a hidden collection of 264 Japanese netsuke miniature sculptures was miraculously saved,

tucked away inside a mattress…The collection has been passed down

through five generations of the Ephrussi family,

providing a common thread for the story of its fortunes from 1871 to 2009"

--Wikipedia

by Edmund DeWaal