Days in the Caucasus

A scintillatingly witty memoir of a young woman’s struggle for freedom, growing up in Azerbaijan on the eve of the Russian Revolution.

“Characters so vividly drawn that their raucous voices seem to echo long after they have vanished from sight.” — Wall Street Journal

Growing up in Azerbaijan in the turbulent early 20th century, Banine had an 'odd, rich, exotic' childhood that left her continually caught between East and West, tradition and modernity.

She remembers her luxurious home, with end...