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Book SynopsisFrom 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
Trade ReviewI 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 *
