TY - BOOK AU - De Waal, Edmund TI - The hare with amber eyes : a hidden inheritance / SN - 9780099539551 (pbk.) : PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Vintage KW - De Waal, Edmund - Family KW - Ephrussi family KW - Ephrussi, Charles, 1849-1905 - Art collections KW - Netsukes - Private collections KW - Jewish families - Europe - History KW - Biography N1 - Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus 2010. COSTA Biography Award 2010; 264 wood and ivory carvings of animals, plants and people, none of them larger than a matchbox; apprentice potter Edmund de Waal was entranced by the collection when he first encountered it in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. When he inherited them, he discovered that they unlocked a story larger than he could have imagined ER -