At the start of her second memoir, "Parisian Days," Banine, a French author of Azerbaijani descent, arrives in the promised land. The year is 1921. Paris has newly entered the Roaring Twenties, a time of short respite between the two Great Wars. Banine is only nineteen, and she has just miraculously escaped her detested husband, the distant city of Istanbul where she left him behind, her homeland Azerbaijan and, perhaps most significantly, the grips of the Soviet Union.| Reading in Translation
Leaving our bereft twin behind in Amsterdam, with only her partner (and a ton of sweaters) for company, we now turn our attention to Peru, and Spain, on the next leg of our International Booker Pri…| Tony's Reading List
