The Hare With Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal

Author:Edmund de Waal
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Netsukes, Jewish Bankers - Europe, Collectors and Collecting, Europe, Sculpture & Installation, Architects, Edmund - Travel - Europe, Photographers, Private Collections, Ceramics, De Waal, Jewish Businesspeople - Europe, Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Historical, Ephrussi Family, History, Jewish Bankers, Art, General, Asian, Artists, Biography & Autobiography, Art - Collectors and Collecting - Europe, Biography
ISBN: 9780374105976
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 2010-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

20. heil wien! heil berlin!

The century is fourteen years old, and so is Elisabeth, a serious young girl who is allowed to sit at dinner with the grown-ups. These are ‘men of distinction, high civil servants, professors and high-ranking officers in the army’ and she listens to the talk of politics, but is told not to talk herself unless she is talked to. She walks with her father to the bank each morning. She is building up her own library in her bedroom: each new book has a neat EE in pencil and a number.

Gisela is a pretty young girl of ten who enjoys clothes. Iggie is a boy of nine who is slightly overweight and self-conscious about it; he isn’t good at maths, but likes drawing very much indeed.

Summer arrives, and the children travel to Kövesces with Emmy. She has ordered a new costume, black with pleating to the blouse, for riding Contra, her favourite bay.

On Sunday 28th June 1914 the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Hapsburg Empire, is assassinated in Sarajevo by a young Serbian nationalist. On Thursday Die Neue Freie Presse writes that ‘the political consequences of this act are being greatly exaggerated’.

On the following Saturday, Elisabeth writes a postcard to Vienna:

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