Letters to Camondo: ‘Immerses you in another age’ Financial Times - Softcover

Letters to Camondo

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Buchbeschreibung Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the author of the bestselling phenomenon The Hare with Amber EyesAs 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 182 pp. Englisch. Artikel-Nr. 9781529114294

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