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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 English for the first time Told with vivacious wit and a lust for life, Parisian Days is a bittersweet portrayal of youthful dreams, and the el...

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 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 ...

The memoir of a granddaughter of Azerbaijani peasants who struck oil and watched their lives change, carrying a personally-charged sense of the overlap of East and West. First translation into English of this life writing classic.

The memoir of a granddaughter of Azerbaijani peasants who struck oil and watched their lives change, carrying a personally-charged sense of the overlap of East and West. First translation into English of this life writing classic.