The Hare With Amber Eyes : A Family's Century Of Art And Loss
by Edmund de Waal

I waited months to receive this book so when it arrived, I hungrily jumped in. Alas, it was not to be. It all boiled down to the author's style of writing. He's described as a potter who "writes." That's laughable. I stopped reading the book after thirty pages. It felt stilted and lacked warmth. De Waal comes off as an insufferable elitist.
The subject is netsuke which are tiny Japanese carvings that can fit in the palm of your hand. Apparently he is the fifth generation of his family to inherit these exquisite figures so he endeavors to seek out how they came to be and who in the family first started collecting them.
I would have liked to have seen these carvings but the photographs are few and grainy.
What a disappointment!
Not recommended.