The Hare with Amber Eyes

Edmund de Waal's extraordinary family memoir traces the history of a collection of 264 Japanese netsuke through the hands of his extended family — the Ephrussi banking dynasty of Vienna and Paris — across 150 years of European history culminating in the Holocaust. Part biography, part art history, part survivor testimony, it became an international bestseller and won the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Costa Biography Award.