Book · 2010 · Nonfiction
The Hare with Amber Eyes
Picador Paper (Macmillan) · 368 pages
★ 6.7 editorial score
A maid hid 264 Japanese carvings in her mattress while the Nazis stripped the Vienna palace of the Ephrussi bankers. De Waal, their descendant, follows the objects through his family's rise and ruin.
Time
2010Depicts 20th century
