
I Left My Grandmother’s House
- Publisher
- Libraryman
- Year
- 2023
- ISBN
- 978-91-88113-61-0
- Specifications
- Offset printed paperbound hardcover
23 × 29 cm
68 pages
31 color plates
Linen thread bound
Beige headband
Authentic tip-in image on front cover
The book contains a preface by the author
First edition of 700 copies
Special edition of 25 copies, numbered, in paperboard slipcase, with signed original print
For I Left My Grandmother’s House, Victoria Hely-Hutchinson turns not only her eye, but her ear as well to her extended family in Austria, merging fragments of family lore with keenly observed photographs. The work neither provides a tidy critique of the extant aristocracy, nor does it blithely venerate the decor, saying “ooooh,” while rolling the brocade curtains between its fingers. Instead, it simply shows and tells, through the disembodied perspective of familial subjectivity. It interrogates history but receives only demure shrugs in response.