{"product_id":"book-eke2","title":"Letters to Camondo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"With deep appreciation for Camondo's generosity and taste, de Waal takes listeners on a journey they won't forget.\" -- \u003ci\u003eAudioFile Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis program is read by the author\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moise de Camondo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 Musée Nissim de Camondo, and filled it with the greatest private collection of French eighteenth-century art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 Époque 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003eA Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49366432809264,"sku":"BDeke2","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/eke2-cover.jpg?v=1761767905","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-eke2","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}