This award-winning memoir follows the history of the , a wealthy Jewish banking dynasty, through the lens of a collection of 264 tiny Japanese carvings called netsuke . De Waal, a renowned ceramicist, inherited the collection and spent years tracing its journey from 1870s Paris to fin-de-siècle Vienna, through the devastation of World War II, and finally to modern-day Japan and London. Quick Facts
The full title of the book you are looking for is by Edmund de Waal . The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of...