Edmund de Waal - an Archive John Szwed Lettice Galbraith (“The Blue Room”)

Lettice Galbraith (“The Blue Room”)

for hundreds of years

When a wealthy jewel merchant receives letters saying his precious daughter Sanae is about to be kidnapped

science and psychology

He watches in horror as the kidnapper forces the girl to drink lamb’s blood from a cup

Edmund de Waal - an Archive John Szwed Lettice Galbraith (“The Blue Room”)Edmund de Waal an Archive attractive, small format 260 page paperback, 4. 72 x 6. 3 inches, published in 2025 by Ivorypress (Spain) English language edition ISBN 9788412749311 *** This is a book about archives that is itself archival, a gathering together of Edmund de Waals reflections on archives from over a decade, presented in chronological order. Yet the book is also cyclical. It begins in Odessa in 2009 and ends in Paris in 2021, encountering De