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- Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
193 kr
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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 émigrés, Spanish artists, writers and bohemians in the 1920's beau monde - and even contemplates love.But soon she finds that freedom brings its own complications. As her family's money runs out, she becomes a fashion model to survive. And when a glamorous figure from her past returns, life is thrown further into doubt. Banine has always been swept along by the forces of history. Can she keep up with them now?Told with vivacious wit and a lust for life, this companion to Days in the Caucasus is a bittersweet portrayal of youthful dreams, and the elusive search for happiness. - Häftad, Engelska, 2024
127 kr
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'A scintillating book' TLS
'Her company is a delight' Tatler
'Part memoir, part social history... sumptuous and unsparing' Financial Times
A brilliantly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman's determined struggle for freedom
The 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 globe
Translated by Anne Thompson-Ahmadova
Banine (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.
- Häftad, Engelska, 2025
149 kr
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A rediscovered classic memoir - the scintillatingly witty account of one extraordinary woman's life during a turbulent century
'A voice so vivid it seems impossible that it should ever have been forgotten' Evening Standard
'An effervescent and irreverent feat of recollection and imagination'-Wall Street Journal
We all know families that are poor but 'respectable'. Mine, in contrast, was extremely rich but not 'respectable' at all...
This is the unforgettable memoir of a childhood spent in Azerbaijan in the turbulent early twentieth century, caught between East and West, tradition and modernity.
Banine remembers her luxurious home, her beloved German governess and her imperious Muslim grandmother. She recalls how the Bolsheviks came, and 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...
The story of Banine's life is both a wry, romantic coming-of-age tale and a touching portrait of a vanished world. It is continued in her companion memoir, Parisian Days.
PRAISE FOR DAYS IN THE CAUCASUS
'An enchanting memoir' - Jane Shilling, Evening Standard
'This jewel of a memoir, written in 1945 but only now published in English, has all the makings of a Tolstoyan drama' - The New Internationalist
'Banine's autobiography captures a rarefied world on the brink of extinction' - Bryan Karetnyk, Spectator
'Banine's consummate prose is marked by undertones of erudite wittiness. Educated and pragmatic, but also hopeful, she expresses wanting nothing more than to be free to pursue self-realization. Days in the Caucasus was published in 1945; this first English translation of the memoir is an absolute joy-full of adventure, travel, and youthful dreams' - Foreword Review
- E-bokTyska, 2026
275 kr
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Die französische Schriftstellerin Banine lernte Ernst Jünger im besetzten Paris kennen und verliebte sich unsterblich in ihn. Auch Jünger fühlte sich zu ihr hingezogen, hatte jedoch eine Frau und zwei Söhne und wahrte seinen Abstand. Über diese meist unerwiderte Liebe, die sie ihr ganzes Leben verfolgte, führte Banine ein Tagebuch, das erst jetzt an die Öffentlichkeit gelangte. In diesen Aufzeichnungen beschreibt sie Ernst Jünger aus nächster Nähe und bringt viele seiner Eigenheiten ans Licht, die bis heute im Dunkeln lagen. Sie enthüllt Jüngers Verhältnis zum französischen Widerstand sowie zu dem umstrittenen Autor Louis-Ferdinand Céline, sie beleuchtet seine kritische Haltung gegenüber den Nationalsozialisten und gibt Einblick in das Leben, dem Jüngers Literatur entsprang: So ist Banines detaillierte Darstellung der gemeinsam an der Côte d''Azur verbrachten Tage die biografische Folie, vor der Jüngers Reiseessay Ein Vormittag in Antibes gelesen werden muss. Doch Liebe ist Dir verboten ist nicht nur ein unschätzbar wertvolles Dokument für die Jünger-Forschung – eseröffnet uns auch die reiche Gefühlswelt einer Autorin, die es in Deutschland erst noch richtig zu ent-decken gilt. - Häftad, Engelska, 2020
157 kr
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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 relatives. She 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.
