"The Hare with Amber Eyes" by Edmund de Waal

I highly recommend Edmund de Waal’s The Hare with Amber Eyes, which is a beautiful history of the collection of netsuke he inherited from an uncle, from the moment when they entered into his family’s possession in Paris at the turn of the last century to the post-World War II period in a narrative that encompasses the history of a family at the same time and spans the European continent from Odessa to Vienna and then to the Netherlands, England, and Japan.