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/100
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60/100Critics
65/100Scholars
Author:
Banine, Anne Thompson-Ahmadova
Publisher:
Pushkin Press
Date:
March 2, 2021
This is the 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.
What The Reviewers Say
A a memoir, first published in 1945 and now keenly translated from the French by Anne Thompson-Ahmadova, which spans the tumultuous period from the author’s birth to 1924. Reflecting an era of bloodshed and terror, it should be a grim read. Instead, however, this account is 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 love story between a Georgian princess and a noble Azeri boy set in Baku during the Russian Revolution.
Every so often a voice emerges from the archive so vivid that it seems impossible that it should ever have been forgotten.
French Azerbaijani writer Banine’s memoir of her childhood, Days of the Caucasus, is an entertaining early twentieth-century account.
