The Hare With Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal [0]
A HIDDEN INHERITANCE
Edmund de Waal
Chatto & Windus
LONDON
CONTENTS
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Family Tree
Preface
Part One Paris 1871–1899
Le West End
Un lit de parade
‘A mahout to guide her’
‘So light, so soft to the touch’
A box of children’s sweets
A fox with inlaid eyes, in wood
The yellow armchair
Monsieur Elstir’s asparagus
Even Ephrussi fell for it
My small profits
A ‘very brilliant five o’clock’
Part Two Vienna 1899–1938
Die Potemkinische Stadt
Zionstrasse
History as it happens
‘A large square box such as children draw’
‘Liberty Hall’
The sweet young thing
Once upon a time
Types of the Old City
Heil Wien! Heil Berlin!
Literally zero
You must change your life
Eldorado 5-0050
Part Three Vienna, Kövesces, Tunbridge Wells, Vienna 1938–1947
‘An ideal spot for mass marches’
‘A never-to-be-repeated opportunity’
‘Good for a single journey’
The tears of things
Anna’s pocket
‘All quite openly, publicly and legally’
Part Four Tokyo 1947–2001
Takenoko
Kodachrome
Where did you get them?
The real Japan
On polish
Coda Tokyo, Odessa, London 2001–2009
Jiro
An astrolabe, a menzula, a globe
Yellow/gold/red
Acknowledgements
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All quotations from À la Recherche du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust are from the translation by C.K. Scott Moncrieff, revised by Terence Kilmartin, 1981
We are grateful to the following for permission to use these images: Le Pont de l’Europe, Gustave Caillebotte © Musée du Petit Palais, Geneva; Une botte d’asperges, Edouard Manet © Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Cologne; Schottentor, Vienna, 1885 © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek; Palais Ephrussi frontal view, plan from the Allgemeine Bauzeitung © Österreichische National-bibliothek; Vienna Anschluss, 1938 © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.
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THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES
264 wood and ivory carvings none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was