{"product_id":"book-ox65","title":"The Renoir Girls","description":"‘Remarkable and haunting … a revelation’ \u003cb\u003eEdmund de Waal, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Hare with Amber Eyes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A dazzling achievement, heartbreaking, glamourous, elegiac, revelatory and utterly gripping’ \u003cb\u003eSimon Sebag Montefiore, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe World: A Family History of Humanity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Truly beautiful and melodic … a joy to read’ \u003cb\u003eHallie Rubenhold, author of\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e The Five \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eand \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eStory of a Murder\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Thrilling … essential reading for our times’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Book of the Week\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn astonishing true story of splendour, scandal and tragedy in Golden Age Paris.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1881, Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted two young sisters from a Jewish banking dynasty at their home in Paris’s grand 8th arrondissement. \u003ci\u003ePink and Blue, \u003c\/i\u003ea portrait of Elisabeth and Alice Cahen d’Anvers, captures a fleeting moment of innocence and beauty, and today it is one of Renoir’s most celebrated works. His portrait evokes the glamour of the Belle Époque: days at the races, nights at the opera, sun-soaked chateaux, brilliant salons filled with art, music and conversation. Paris at its most dazzling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet beneath the glittering surface was a surging current of resentment. Renoir’s Impressionist masterpiece, radiant with light and colour, hides both a family secret and the tensions of an era poised for rupture. The same society that was illuminated by progress and culture was cast into shadow by division, prejudice and rising antisemitism. The Cahen d’Anvers, prominent patrons of this Golden Age, would come to embody both its glory and its tragedy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Renoir Girls\u003c\/i\u003e, Catherine Ostler paints a vivid and immersive portrait of intimate individual lives against the vast sweep of a changing Europe. Drawing on letters, diaries and exclusive new research, Ostler uncovers revelatory truths about a family at the heart of modern Europe’s struggles. From the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War to the Dreyfus Affair and the devastation of two world wars, this is a powerful story of love, courage and identity in conflict with the forces of history.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":51237930041648,"sku":"BDox65","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":51237930074416,"sku":"10ox65","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/ox65-Square-cover.jpg?v=1779561803","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ox65","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}