354 pages
English language
Published Dec. 19, 2011 by Picador.
4 stars
(1 review)
Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 360 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.
Subjects
- Jewish businesspeople
- Jewish bankers
- Art
- Netsukes
- Travel
- Biography
- Collectors and collecting
- Private collections
Places
- Europe
- England
- London