Parisian Days by Banine, translated by Anne Thompson-Ahmadova art theory "Masterfully told and compelling reinterpreted

"Masterfully told and compelling reinterpreted

wrestles with the new order and confronts the changes cruel experience has made in him and the anguish of being torn between the love of two women

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Parisian Days by Banine, translated by Anne Thompson-Ahmadova art theory "Masterfully told and compelling reinterpretedThe 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 migrs, Spanish artists, writers and bohemians in the 1920s beau monde and even contemplates love. But soon she finds that freedom brings its own complications. As her familys money runs