Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and their Journey - Softcover

Fonseca, Isabel

 
9780099740216: Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and their Journey
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099740214 ISBN 13: 9780099740216
Verlag: Vintage, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Gypsies have always intrigued and fascinated - partly because of their mysterious origins, and partly because of the romance of nomadism. But because they resist assimilation, having survived as a distinct people for over a thousand years, they have also been the victims of other people's nationalism and xenophobia.

In this fascinating and timely study, Fonseca focuses particularly on the gypsies in Eastern Europe (an estimated 6 million), and their future as a distinct race within a nationalist Europe. While researching the book, Fonseca learned Romany and stayed with the gypsies, becoming deeply involved with their lives, and befriending several gypsy kings.

The result is a clolourful and frank book, filled with enthusiasm and curiosity, without lapsing into piety or romanticism.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Isabel Fonseca was born in New York and educated at Columbia University and Oxford. She was an assistant editor at the Times Literary Supplement and has written for a wide range of publications, from the Wall Street Journal to Vogue. Her first book, Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey, has been an international bestseller and her first novel, Attachment, was published to critical acclaim in 2008. She lives in London with her husband and their two daughters.

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099740214
ISBN 13 
9780099740216
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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