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The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss by Edmund de Waal
3 reviews
directorpurry's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
2.75
"You assimilate, but you need somewhere to go. You keep your passport to hand. You keep something private."
This is more a family story than a book about art or Jewish history. There were times I felt great kinship with de Waal and the Ephrussi family, and other times I felt nothing at all. Our shared ethnicity was not enough to tie us together.
But through it all I felt such deep sadness - in such a time of destruction and loss, why do you get your art collections back when my grandmother will never know the names of her aunts when both were taken in the same instance?
This is more a family story than a book about art or Jewish history. There were times I felt great kinship with de Waal and the Ephrussi family, and other times I felt nothing at all. Our shared ethnicity was not enough to tie us together.
But through it all I felt such deep sadness - in such a time of destruction and loss, why do you get your art collections back when my grandmother will never know the names of her aunts when both were taken in the same instance?
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Antisemitism, War, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Torture and Confinement
kibiiiariii's review
informative
reflective
tense
slow-paced
2.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Antisemitism, Biphobia, Deportation, Pregnancy, Racism, Violence, and War
lynxpardinus's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
reflective
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, War, Xenophobia, Genocide, Death of parent, Antisemitism, and Hate crime
Moderate: Racial slurs, Grief, Infidelity, Cultural appropriation, Deportation, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Colonisation, and Classism
Minor: Sexual content
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