Days in the Caucasus
by Banine
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Pub Date Mar 02 2021 | Archive Date Nov 29 2020
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Description
This is the unforgettable memoir of an 'odd, rich, exotic' childhood, of growing up in Azerbaijan in the turbulent early twentieth century, caught between East and West, tradition and modernity.
Banine remembers her luxurious home, with endless feasts of sweets and fruit; her beloved, flaxen-haired German governess; her imperious, swearing, strict Muslim grandmother; her bickering, poker-playing, chain-smoking relatives. She recalls how the Bolsheviks came, and they lost everything. How, amid revolution and bloodshed, she fell passionately in love, only to be forced into marriage with a man she loathed- until the chance of escape arrived.
Advance Praise
'A delightful memoir of an eventful life set against the helter-skelter of the 20th century' Financial Times
'Every so often a voice emerges from the archive so vivid that it seems impossible that it should ever have been forgotten' Evening Standard
'I started to leaf through the book and was soon engrossed... So vividly and wittily does the author reveal to us an utterly unfamiliar world' Teffi
'A romantic and gloriously comic account of a heady and turbulent youth spent on the shores of the Caspian... Banine's autobiography captures a rarefied world on the brink of extinction... What commends Days in the Caucasus, quite aside from its rakish narrative, is [her] exquisite prose and unremitting eye for comic absurdity even amid the profoundest personal tragedy' Bryan Karetnyk, Spectator
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781782274872 |
| PRICE | CA$31.00 (CAD) |
| PAGES | 288 |
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