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Letters to Camondo

‘Immerses you in another age’ Financial Times

Edmund de Waal author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:2nd Jun '22

Should be back in stock very soon

Letters to Camondo cover

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 series of letters addressed to Camondo, he tells us what happened next.

'Illuminating... A wonderful tribute to a family and to an idea'Guardian

'Letters to Camondo immerses you in another age... Dazzling'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 enquiring intelligence, and Letters to Camondo succeeds admirably... Edmund de Waal's beautiful book opens a window onto an entire lost world * Evening Standard *
De Waal's sentences like to take the historical weight of the objects he describes... An unforgettable book * Observer *
It will make you think differently about trunks in the attic and it will make you read old letters with new eyes * The Times *

ISBN: 9781529114294

Dimensions: 198mm x 132mm x 16mm

Weight: 322g

192 pages