Los días de París

The Orient Express steams ahead across the steppe, and Banine is free for the first time in his life. She has fled her ruined homeland and her forced marriage to carve out a bright new future for herself in the promised land: Paris. A city that invites you to cut your hair, wear short skirts and mix until late at night with all kinds of exiles: Russian aristocrats, Spanish artists and other bohemians from the beau monde of the twenties. But very soon - when her family runs out of money, she has to work as a model to survive and a glamorous figure from her past re-enters the scene - the author will discover that freedom also brings its own complications, and that the forces of history have never stopped acting...A companion to the fabulous The Caucasus Days, this elegant, wry, and moving memoire vividly and witfully depicts an extraordinary woman and time, while painting a bittersweet portrait of youthful dreams and the ever-elusive quest for happiness.