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Banine Days in the Caucasus (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Days in the Caucasus
- Publication Name
- Days in the Caucasus
- Title
- Days in the Caucasus
- Translator
- Anne Thompson-Ahmadova
- Contributor
- Anne Thompson-Ahmadova (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1782274898
- EAN
- 9781782274896
- ISBN
- 9781782274896
- Publisher
- Steerforth Press
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
- Topic
- Cultural Heritage, Personal Memoirs, Regional Studies
- Release Date
- 26/03/2020
- Release Year
- 2020
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 7.8in
- Language
- English
- Original Language
- Russian
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 8.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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A scintillatingly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman's determined struggle for freedom We all know families that are poor but 'respectable'. Mine, in contrast, was extremely rich but not 'respectable' at all... This is the extraordinary 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. By turns gossipy and romantic, wry and moving, Days in the Caucasus is a coming-of-age story and a portrait of a vanished world, and of how the past haunts us.
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Publisher
Steerforth Press
ISBN-10
1782274898
ISBN-13
9781782274896
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18050406619
Product Key Features
Book Title
Days in the Caucasus
Original Language
Russian
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Personal Memoirs, Regional Studies
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.8in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq2603.A2818
Reviews
"An effervescent and irreverent feat of recollection and imagination--epic in sweep yet intimate in tone--that introduces the reader to an exotic, antique world and to characters so vividly drawn that their raucous voices seem to echo long after they have vanished from sight... A radiant jewel of a book" -- The Wall Street Journal "Banine's 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. D ays 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 Reviews "Banine offers us an invaluable, irresistibly readable portrait of a way of life eclipsed by the cataclysms of the 20th century." -- The Calvert Journal "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 "This jewel of a memoir, written in 1945 but only now published in English, has all the makings of a Tolstoyan drama" -- New Internationalist "Banine tells her story of first loves, forced marriage, exile and Paris with wit and warmth. Never one to take anything too seriously, her company and her memoir is a delight " -- Tatler "Filtering her childhood ambitions through the lens of maturity, Banine recreates a world that is both believable and thoroughly engrossing" -- Times Literary Supplement "A devilish story, like a finely spiced dish, bringing verve, joy and charm along with its delicious style" -- Action "An intense story, often amusing, which plunges the reader into the most unfamiliar territory imaginable" -- Verités "A book to give those gloomy souls who find daily existence banal" -- Lettres françaises
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Dewey Decimal
843.912
Dewey Edition
23
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