Encore Book Group

"The Hare with Amber Eyes" 

by Edmund de Waal

Date: Monday, December 7th

Time: 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Location: TBD (possibly Waveny House)

There is always a lively discussion!  If you get on the email list, you will be alerted to changes in the schedule or venue and book availability. To join the book group, please email Anne Sutcliffe. 

"The Hare with the Amber Eyes" is available on Hoopla through the New Canaan digital library. Copies may also be available in the Encore Book Group's hold shelf to the right of the librarian's desk. 

Amazon Summary

Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty years making beautiful pots―which are then sold, collected, and handed on―he has a particular sense of the secret lives of objects. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny Japanese wood and ivory carvings, called netsuke, he wanted to know who had touched and held them, and how the collection had managed to survive.

And so begins this extraordinarily moving memoir and detective story as de Waal discovers both the story of the netsuke and of his family, the Ephrussis, over five generations. A nineteenth-century banking dynasty in Paris and Vienna, the Ephrussis were as rich and respected as the Rothchilds. Yet by the end of the World War II, when the netsuke were hidden from the Nazis in Vienna, this collection of very small carvings was all that remained of their vast empire.