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Days in the Caucasus / Banine.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: London : Pushkin Press, 2020.Description: 288 pagesISBN:
  • 9781782274896 (pbk.) :
Uniform titles:
  • Jours caucasiens. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 843.912 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ2603.A2818
Summary: Banine was the granddaughter of Azerbaijani peasants who became fabulously wealthy through the discovery and production of oil. 'Days in the Caucasus' is her memoir: a tale of overlapping cultures, of ideas of East and West, of pogroms, revolution, end of empire, coming of age, forced marriage and multiple escapes - to Persia, Georgia and eventually Paris.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Fiction The Harden Library, King's Hospital Fiction Section F BAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R17341P0499

Translated from the French.

Originally published: 2019.

Banine was the granddaughter of Azerbaijani peasants who became fabulously wealthy through the discovery and production of oil. 'Days in the Caucasus' is her memoir: a tale of overlapping cultures, of ideas of East and West, of pogroms, revolution, end of empire, coming of age, forced marriage and multiple escapes - to Persia, Georgia and eventually Paris.

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