Eleven years ago EdeW published ‘The Hare with the Amber Eyes’ and stunned the world. He will do so again with this short, vibrant, deeply affecting series of letters addressed to Count Moise de Camondo, who left his Parisian mansion to the French nation on his death in 1935. He, like many others, believed in the emancipation and assimilation of the Jews first proclaimed in the French Revolution. Personal, observant, carefully and beautifully constructed, the narrative is presented almost as a series of shards, turned this way and that, put aside, picked up again, reassembled, added to. He lets us stand on the threshold of world of the Camondos, the Reinachs, the Ephrussis, the Cahen d’Anvers and other great Jewish families of the period; we see Moise and his extended family walk through the pages and out, leaving us in a wake of loss and reflection.
NB This will be published on April 22nd but orders may be placed now.
Author Maurice Bowra Published by ISBN 0946976112 EAN 9780946976119 BIC Code Cover Hardback
