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Letters to Camondo: ‘Immerses you in another age’ Financial Times
Edmund de Waal
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Description for Letters to Camondo: ‘Immerses you in another age’ Financial Times
Hardback.
From the author of the bestselling phenomenon The Hare with Amber Eyes
As you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by accident. I know your street rather well.
The Camondos lived just a few doors away from Edmund de Waal's forebears. Like de Waal's family, they were part of belle époque high society. They were also targets of anti-Semitism.
Count Moïse de Camondo created a spectacular house filled with art for his son to inherit. Over a century later, de Waal explores the lavish rooms and detailed archives and, in a haunting ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784744311
SKU
9781784744311
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Edmund de Waal
Edmund de Waal is an artist whose porcelain is exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. His bestselling memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes, won the RSL Ondaatje prize and the Costa Biography Award and in 2015 he was awarded the Windham-Campbell prize for non-fiction by Yale University. The White Road, a journey into the history of porcelain, was ... Read more
Reviews for Letters to Camondo: ‘Immerses you in another age’ Financial Times
I was deeply moved... De Waal has found a way to meditate on exile, migration and polarisation that feels painfully relevant
Sunday Times
This is a marvellous book, elegant, tender, loving, appreciative, disturbing, a reminder of both the fragility and resilience of high culture, indeed civilisation
Scotsman
De Waal is a writer of grace and restlessly ... Read more
Sunday Times
This is a marvellous book, elegant, tender, loving, appreciative, disturbing, a reminder of both the fragility and resilience of high culture, indeed civilisation
Scotsman
De Waal is a writer of grace and restlessly ... Read more