{"product_id":"9781782274896","title":"Days in the Caucasus","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eBanine; Thompson-Ahmadova, Anne\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePushkin Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9\/14\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eA   scintillatingly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman's determined   struggle for freedom\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe all know families that are poor but 'respectable'. Mine, in   contrast, was extremely rich but not 'respectable' at all...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e By turns gossipy and romantic, wry and moving, \u003ci\u003eDays in the Caucasus\u003c\/i\u003e is a   coming-of-age story and a portrait of a vanished world, and of how the past   haunts us.","brand":"Pushkin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44214153117951,"sku":"9781782274896","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9781782274896_s600x595.jpg?v=1775593786","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9781782274896","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}