{"product_id":"9781782274896","title":"Days in the Caucasus by Anne Thompson-Ahmadova","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205011243186,"sku":"9781782274896","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/products\/9781782274896_f26a7730-9f7b-4513-8fe7-88e99c375df6.jpg?v=1699022576","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781782274896","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}