a journey through time

I close with sadness this book because I found it so interesting that I regret having already finished. It is with a member of the Ephrussi family we go back in time to know the origin of the collection of netsuke which .L'initiateur author inherits this superb collection is Charles Ephrussi friend of Proust who also take partly to model and what is successful in this book is that the author really trying to find his family, the places where their ancestors lived through photos, letters, travel, documents. Charles is Paris friendships with Renoir, Proust, Gustave Moreau and here we are in Vienna with this great grandmother with a strong personality, beautiful, always dressed in the latest fashion, easy money, and less after less First World War, the rise of Nazism and counting, the uncle Iggie in Tokyo Elizabeth efforts to recover fragments of memories, loyalty Anna that hides the netsuke and finally back to basics in Odessa .It A few pictures of netsuke on the covers of books, small objects made all the art of Japanese and that fit in the hand and accompanying author throughout the book drive.