Book Discussion Group at the Aquinnah Library on The Hare With Amber Eyes by De Waal

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss is on many of the best memoirs of 2010. "The Ephrussis...rich and respected...in nineteenth-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of World War II, almost the only thing remaining of their vast empire was a collection of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox.

The renowned ceramicist Edmund de Waal became ...entranced by [the collection's] beauty and mystery; he determined to trace the story of his family through the story of the collection." (Description from amazon.com)
Copies of the book are available at the library.