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Title: Parisian Days
Condition: New
Format: Paperback
Subtitle: The Rediscovered Classic Memoir
ISBN-10: 1782278036
EAN: 9781782278030
ISBN: 9781782278030
Publisher: Pushkin Press Classics
Release Date: 25/01/2024
Description: 'A scintillating book' TLS'Her company is a delight' Tatler'Part memoir, part social history... sumptuous and unsparing' Financial TimesA brilliantly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman's determined struggle for freedomThe Orient Express hurtles towards the promised land, freeing Banine from her past. Escaping her ruined homeland and forced marriage, she aspires to a dazzling future in Paris.As a chic Parisienne she mingles with émigrés, artists and writers-and even contemplates love. But freedom brings challenges. Swept along by the forces of history, can Banine keep up?Filled with vivacious wit and a lust for life, this companion to Days in the Caucasus is a paean to bittersweet dreams and the quest for happiness.Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globeTranslated by Anne Thompson-AhmadovaBanine (1905-1992) was born Umm El-Banu Assadullayeva, into a wealthy family in Baku, then part of the Russian Empire. Following the Russian Revolution and the subsequent fall of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, Banine was forced to flee her home country-first to Istanbul, and then to Paris. In Paris she formed a wide circle of literary acquaintances including Nicos Kazantzakis, André Malraux, Ivan Bunin and Teffi and eventually began writing herself. Parisian Days continues the story that began with Days in the Caucasus, which is also available from Pushkin Press.
Language: French
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Author: Banine
Translator: Anne Thompson-Ahmadova
Contributor: Anne Thompson-Ahmadova (Translated by)
Genre: Biography
Book Series: Pushkin Press Classics
Topic: History
Release Year: 2024

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