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The Hare with Amber Eyes The Hare with Amber Eyes A FAMILY’S CENTURY OF ART AND LOSS Edmund de Waal Farrar, Straus and Giroux New York For Ben, Matthew and Anna, and for my father ‘Even when one is no longer attached to things, it’s still something to have been attached to them; because it was always for reasons which other people didn’t grasp…Well, now that I’m a little too weary to live with other people, these old feelings, so personal and individual, that I had in the past, seem to me – it’s the mania of all collectors – very precious. I open my heart to myself like a sort of vitrine, and examine one by one all those love affairs of which the world can know nothing. And of this collection to which I’m now much more attached than to my others, I say to myself, rather as Mazarin said of his books, but in fact without the least distress, that it will be very tiresome to have to leave it all.’ Charles Swann Marcel Proust, Cities of the Plain CONTENTS Family Tree Prologue Part One Paris 1871–1899 1. Le West End 2. Un lit de parade 3. ‘A mahout to guide her’ 4. ‘So light, so soft to the touch’ 5. A box of children’s sweets 6. A fox with inlaid eyes, in wood 7. The yellow armchair 8. Monsieur Elstir’s asparagus 9. Even Ephrussi fell for it 10. My small profits 11. A ‘very brilliant five o’clock’ Part Two Vienna 1899–1938 12. Die potemkinsche Stadt 13. Zionstrasse 14. History as it happens 15. ‘A large square box such as children draw’ 16. ‘Liberty Hall’ 17. The sweet young thing 18. Once upon a time 19. Types of the Old City 20. Heil Wien! Heil Berlin! 21. Literally zero 22. You must change your life 23. Eldorado 5–0050 Part Three Vienna, Kövecses, Tunbridge Wells, Vienna 1938–1947 24. ‘An ideal spot for mass marches’ 25. ‘A never-to-be-repeated opportunity’ 26. ‘Good for a single journey’ 27. The tears of things 28. Anna’s pocket 29. ‘All quite openly, publicly and legally’ Part Four Tokyo 1947–2001 30. Takenoko 31. Kodachrome 32. Where did you get them? 33. The real Japan 34. On polish Coda Tokyo, Odessa, London 2001–2009 35. Jiro 36. An astrolabe, a menzula, a globe 37. Yellow/Gold/Red Acknowledgements
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