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Letters to Camondo

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

About Edmund de Waal

Edmund de Waal is an artist, writer and potter. His family memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010) won the Costa Biography Award and the RSL Ondaatje Prize, and has sold over a million copies worldwide. The White Road (2015), a journey into the history of porcelain, was followed by the Sunday Times-bestselling Letters to Camondo (2021). De Waal’s books have been translated into 30 languages. He lives in London.
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Details
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • ISBN: 9781529114294
  • Length: 192 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 132mm
  • Weight: 322g
  • Price: £9.99
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