I was touring Villa Ephrussi (the Rothschild Estate in St. Jean Cap-Ferrat) yesterday, and lookie what was well displayed in the estate gift shop. Click the thread for info on this little gem...
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To the New York Times' question:
"What's the last real big book you've read?",
Hilary Clinton replied: "I can not help but think of Edmund de Vaal's Amber-Eyed Hare, Elizabeth Gilbert's Footprint, Lynne Olson's Citizen of London, and Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy..."
"What's the last real big book you've read?",
Hilary Clinton replied: "I can not help but think of Edmund de Vaal's Amber-Eyed Hare, Elizabeth Gilbert's Footprint, Lynne Olson's Citizen of London, and Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy..."
Source (s): The New York Times (2014)
Hillary Clinton
HILLARY CLINTON
Candidate for the American Presidency
Summary of The Amber-Eyed Hare
Charles Ephrussi, who inspired Proust as Swann, was the patriarch of one of the greatest families of the nineteenth-century...
Hillary Clinton
HILLARY CLINTON
Candidate for the American Presidency
Summary of The Amber-Eyed Hare
Charles Ephrussi, who inspired Proust as Swann, was the patriarch of one of the greatest families of the nineteenth-century...
...Jewish bourgeoisie. Friends of Schnitzler, of Hofmannsthal, patrons of the Impressionists, the Ephrussi led a great train between Paris and Vienna until the Nazi plunder and the war precipitated them in the tragedy Of their splendor, equal in time to that of the Rothschilds
...and Camondo, nothing will survive, except an astonishing collection of Japanese miniatures - the netsuke - among which, as on the cover of this book, a certain hare with amber eyes ...
It is this story of multiple crossings that Edmund de Waal...
It is this story of multiple crossings that Edmund de Waal...
...himself a descendant of the Ephrussi, tells. The result - between history and literature - deeply marks the memory of the reader.
End.
End.
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