The definitive illustrated edition of the international
bestseller

Two hundred and sixty-four
Japanese wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox:
Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in
his great-uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the
netsuke, they unlocked a far more dramatic story than he could ever have
imagined.

From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de
siècle Paris, from occupied Vienna to postwar Tokyo, de Waal
traces the netsuke's journey through generations of his remarkable
family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century. With sumptuous
photographs of the netsuke collection and full-color images from de
Waal's family archive, the illustrated edition of The Hare with Amber
Eyes transforms a deeply intimate saga into a work of visual
art.