Parisian Days by Banine, translated by Anne Thompson-Ahmadova art theory Barbican Art Group Trust

Barbican Art Group Trust

creating her own category

brings alive the human reality behind the headlines

"Masterfully told and compelling reinterpreted

combines a tender character study

Parisian Days by Banine, translated by Anne Thompson-Ahmadova art theory Barbican Art Group TrustThe 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