A review by sunnysideup50
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss by Edmund de Waal

5.0

I really enjoyed reading this book. It was like a lullabye, the writing was so smooth and soothing. I particularly enjoyed the authors' seamless transitions between historical imaginings and present day musings. I love reading histories and biographies when they are so richly evoctive of the time/period. I found this book to be a wonderful example. De Waal brought to life what it was like to live as a wealthy young Jewish man in Paris in the 1880's, Vienna in the early 1900's and in Post-war Japan. He has a wonderful understading of the richness art ads to ones life. NOTE: I particularly enjoyed reading this book on my Ipad. It was so easy when a famous painting was mentioned, to google the image and get an instant color picture of the art that was being referred to. I was able to see one of De Walls talks that was on You Tube, and remind myself by checking google maps, where exactly Odesa was. It just made the reading of this book all the more satisfying!