Letters to Camondo, The Hare With Amber Eyes, The White Road 3-Book Set by Edmund de Waal - Non Fiction - Mixed Format
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Titles in This Set:
Letters to Camondo
The White Road
Amber Eyes
Condition: BRAND NEW
Format: Mixed lot
ISBN: 9781784744311 9780099539551 9780099575986
Overview:
Edmund de Waal's 3 Books Collection Set brings together three intimate explorations of memory, art, and objects that traverse continents and centuries. Letters to Camondo invites readers into a dialogue with a vanished Parisian collector, revealing how letters, rooms, and carefully arranged objects illuminate a life lived amid privilege, peril, and loss. The White Road takes you on a physical and spiritual journey through clay and porcelain, tracing humanity's enduring fascination with fire, craft, and the desire to create something that endures beyond a single generation. Amber Eyes, or The Hare with Amber Eyes, offers a richly reported family memoir that follows a cabinet of netsuke—tiny carvings that travel from Vienna to Paris to Tokyo—becoming a luminous lens on exile, migration, and memory. Together these volumes form a cohesive reading journey, blending art history, memoir, and cultural history into a deeply satisfying experience. This collection is perfect for readers who relish literary non-fiction that reads with the pace of a novel, for lovers of ceramics and material culture, and for gift-givers seeking a complete, premium edition of de Waal's most influential works.
What Makes This Collection Special:
This trio of books stands as a carefully curated gateway into how objects speak across generations. Letters to Camondo offers intimate, contemplative insight into a world of art and loss, while The White Road turns material history into a human quest—an exploration of how porcelain’s radiance was achieved through fire, skill, and collaboration across cultures. Amber Eyes (The Hare with Amber Eyes) tightens the lens further, showing how a single cabinet of netsuke can unfold a sweeping narrative about displacement, identity, and the enduring pull of memory. Read together, the titles illuminate a shared fascination with how we preserve, interpret, and cherish the tangible remnants of our past, making this set a binge-worthy, binge-reading experience with a built-in through-line.
Books Included in This Collection:
Letters to Camondo
Letters to Camondo is a thoughtful, epistolary meditation that connects the present with a vanished world. Through intimate correspondence, de Waal contemplates the Camondo family and the fate of their collection after upheaval and loss. The writing is spare yet lyrical, turning a private exchange into a map of memory, identity, and belonging. The book invites readers to reflect on how objects bear witness to history and how a single voice can pull distant moments into the foreground of everyday life.
The White Road
The White Road: A Journey Into Obsession traces the history of porcelain from hillside clay to luminous white kilns. It's part travelogue, part archaeology, part craft-history, inviting readers to feel the patience of kiln fire and the thrill of discovery. de Waal's prose melds science, craft, and storytelling as he follows the material's global journeys, shedding light on cultural exchange and the endless human effort to shape beauty. This book will appeal to readers who love art history, ceramics, and immersive, thoughtful narrative.
Amber Eyes
The Hare with Amber Eyes (Amber Eyes) is a captivating family memoir that follows a tiny cabinet of netsuke through generations and upheavals. De Waal blends careful historical research with intimate memory, showing how an object collection can anchor a family's story across empires and wars. The book balances personal reflection with broader history, creating a vivid tapestry of exile, identity, and resilience. It rewards patient reading with surprising revelations about taste, fortune, and the small artefacts that carry large emotional weight.
Who This Set Is Perfect For:
This collection is ideal for adults who love literary non-fiction that reads like a novel, art and design enthusiasts, historians of culture, and readers drawn to family memoirs told through objects. It also makes a thoughtful gift for book clubs, collectors, students of art history, archaeology, and anyone who enjoys immersive narratives that merge travel, craft, and memory. If you crave cross-cultural stories and a cohesive reading journey, this three-book set will resonate long after the last page is turned.
Key Benefits:
- Three acclaimed, richly linked volumes in one premium collection
- Cross-genre reading that blends art history, memoir, and travelogue
- Deepens understanding of memory, identity, and material culture
- Excellent gift for bibliophiles, collectors, and book clubs
- Complete UK editions in a single, cohesive set for easy gifting
- Elegant, thoughtful prose that rewards careful, reflective reading
About the Author:
Edmund de Waal is a celebrated British artist and author whose work bridges sculpture, ceramics, and narrative non-fiction. In these three volumes, he demonstrates his hallmark ability to weave personal memory with broader cultural history, inviting readers to consider how objects shape identity and memory. His writing is precise, lucid, and emotionally resonant, turning artefacts and family stories into universal reflections on belonging, loss, and resilience. Readers who loved The Hare with Amber Eyes and The White Road will recognize in Letters to Camondo a continuation of his thoughtful, artful investigations into the ways in which objects carry our shared human stories.
Why You’ll Love This Set:
Owning the complete Edmund de Waal collection in one beautifully packaged set offers both intellectual and emotional payoff. You gain a cohesive reading journey that moves from intimate correspondence to global histories of art and exile. The titles complement each other, offering multiple entry points into de Waal's world of memory, craft, and museum-like curiosity. It's an ideal gift for bibliophiles and collectors who value durable, well-made books with thoughtful content. The set provides lasting shelf presence and conversation starters for readers who want depth, beauty, and a sense of lineage in their reading.
Please Note: The individual books included in this listing will be dispatched as per the original UK ISBN and UK edition cover image shown in the image.
