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 relativesShe 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.


Format Häftad Omfång 288 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Pushkin Press Utgivningsdatum 2020-03-26 ISBN 9781782274896