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Number of Pages
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Age Group
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Language
English
Book Summary
A rediscovered classic memoir - the scintillatingly witty account of one extraordinary womans life during a turbulent centuryA voice so vivid it seems impossible that it should ever have been forgotten Evening StandardAn effervescent and irreverent feat of recollection and imagination-Wall Street JournalWe all know families that are poor but respectable. Mine, in contrast, was extremely rich but not respectable at all...This is the unforgettable memoir of a childhood spent in Azerbaijan in the turbulent early twentieth century, caught between East and West, tradition and modernity.Banine remembers her luxurious home, her beloved German governess and her imperious Muslim grandmother. She recalls how the Bolsheviks came, and 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...The story of Banines life is both a wry, romantic coming-of-age tale and a touching portrait of a vanished world. It is continued in her companion memoir, Parisian Days.PRAISE FOR DAYS IN THE CAUCASUSAn enchanting memoir - Jane Shilling, Evening StandardThis jewel of a memoir, written in 1945 but only now published in English, has all the makings of a Tolstoyan drama - The New InternationalistBanines autobiography captures a rarefied world on the brink of extinction - Bryan Karetnyk, SpectatorBanines consummate prose is marked by undertones of erudite wittiness. Educated and pragmatic, but also hopeful, she expresses wanting nothing more than to be free to pursue self-realization. Days in the Caucasus was published in 1945; this first English translation of the memoir is an absolute joy-full of adventure, travel, and youthful dreams - Foreword Review
Product Details
Author
Banine
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Number of Pages
288
Language
English
SKU
9781805332206
ISBN
9781805332206
Reading Age
All
Dimensions
12.93 x 2.18 x 19.71 cm
Binding
Paperback
MRP: ₹ 699
₹ 629
₹ 70 Off