Title : Holidays in the Caucasus - Maria Iordanidou - book

Summary :

One fine morning in July 1914, fifteen-year-old Anna left Constantinople, the family home and her dear grandmother, Loxandra, to spend a month's vacation in Stavropol, in the Caucasus.

She would return five years later, after experiencing mobilization, war, the Russian Revolution and the Civil War...

The holidays, in fact, didn't even have time to begin: in the general confusion, the teenager lost track of her aunt at the Batum train station, from where they were both supposed to leave. After two months of wandering, she finally found herself in Stavropol, became an English teacher even though she barely knew the basics, learned Russian and Slavic cuisine, adopted the habits of her new friends, even fell in love, and made a name for herself in the great History.

Such adaptability, such mobility, such good humor too - which the verve and humor of the story underline - never fail to delight us, to surprise us, sometimes to amaze us, especially since this is... the story of Maria Iordanidou herself, who was herself the terrified and dazzled spectator that she portrays with this simplicity, and this form of unconsciousness that only true heroes display.

• EAN: 9782742708918
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