{"product_id":"letters-to-camondo-9780374603489","title":"Letters to Camondo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moise de Camondo\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLetters to Camondo\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of imaginary letters from Edmund de Waal to Moise de Camondo, the banker and art collector who created a spectacular house in Paris, now the Mus e Nissim de Camondo, and filled it with the greatest private collection of French eighteenth-century art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Camondos were a Jewish family from Constantinople, \"the Rothschilds of the East,\" who made their home in Paris in the 1870s and became philanthropists, art collectors, and fixtures of Belle  poque high society, as well as being targets of antisemitism--much like de Waal's relations, the Ephrussi family, to whom they were connected. Moise de Camondo created a spectacular house and filled it with art for his son, Nissim; after Nissim was killed in the First World War, the house was bequeathed to the French state. Eventually, the Camondos were murdered by the Nazis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter de Waal, one of the world's greatest ceramic artists, was invited to make an exhibition in the Camondo house, he began to write letters to Moise de Camondo. These fifty letters are deeply personal reflections on assimilation, melancholy, family, art, the vicissitudes of history, and the value of memory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e de Waal, Edmund\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/11\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374603489\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Edmund de Waal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39364510187595,"sku":"9780374603489","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_24568db1-621d-4aea-990c-767036fcf5f1.jpg?v=1621355179","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/letters-to-camondo-9780374603489","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}