Bryan Karetnyk

Looking back on Baku

In Days in the Caucasus, first published in 1945, the emigrée writer Banine recalls her heady youth by the Caspian before the Bolshevik revolution

issue 04 May 2019

  • Days in the Caucasus

    Banine, translated from the French by Anne Thompson-Ahmadova

    Pushkin Press, pp. 288

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