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Days in the Caucasus by Banine (tr. Anne Thompson-Ahmadova)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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 ...Show more
Days in the Caucasus by Banine
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
We all know families that are poor but 'respectable'. Mine, in contrast, was extremely rich but not 'respectable' at all.... Banine's family were peasants who became millionaires overnight when oil gushed from their lands - and the course of her own life would be just as dramatic. This is her unforget ...Show more
Parisian Days by Banine; Anne Thompson-Ahmadova (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
"Every so often a voice emerges from the archive so vivid that it seems impossible that it should ever have been forgotten." -- Evening Standard A brilliantly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman's determined struggle to realize her dreams of "freedom and fantasy" in 1920s Paris, appearing in ...Show more
Parisian Days by Banine (tr. Anne Thompson-Ahmadova)
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The Orient Express hurtles towards the promised land, and Banine is free for the first time in her life. She has fled her ruined homeland and unhappy forced marriage for a dazzling new future in Paris. Now she cuts her hair, wears short skirts, mingles with Russian emigres, Spanish artists, writers and ...Show more
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