- Hardcover: 322 pages
- Publisher: Chatto & Windus; First Edition edition (19 Oct 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0701138513
- ISBN-13: 978-0701138516
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.3 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
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'A remarkable achievement. A gripping, original work' Edward W. Said
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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 1000 years, they have also been the victims of other people's nationalism and xenophobia. The have been persecuted throughout the ages, most recently in German concentration camps, and by nationalist mobs in Rumania. In this study, the author focuses particularly on the gypsies of Eastern Europe (an estimated 6 million) and their future as a distinct race within a nationalist Europe. Her book is a blend of the scholarly - their origins, folklore, customs, dietary laws, myths, taboos - and the personal. While researching the book, Fonseca learned Romany and stayed with the gypsies, becoming deeply involved with their lives and befriending several gypsy kings.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A lovely book! Fonseca's travelogue is a tour-de-force, finely balanced between her own adventures and the stories of the Gypsies she meets. Her English is clear and alive. Her empathy with the people she meets is neither maudlin nor judging. She throws herself into whatever situation she meets without exaggerating, and without superiority. Her analysis is intelligent and based very much on her own experiences. A good read for anyone, and essential for anyone interested in contemporary Gypsy life and culture.
40 of 41 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is an extraordinary book and will change the way you see not only gypsies or Roma, but yourself. It portrays with depth and sensitivity the lives of gypsy communities across Europe, catalogues the tale of appallingly little know horrors to which they've been subject, and makes the reader grapple with his or her own (not so)hidden prejudices. Isabel Fonseca also has an extraordinary voice and ability to craft language. I have asked everyone I've met or spoken to for the past week to read this book and can only suggest that you do the same.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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Just to say that this book has you gripped from beginning to end and is recommended by most who have an interest in the culture of Gypsies. It is a book that enlightens you to the sensitivities of the gypsy culture and also has you in tears at the infliction of inhumane treatment towards a people who retain the way of life that most of us do not experience. Prejudice and intolerance from various barbaric dictators to the almost racist slur that come from everyday folk.
It is also interesting to learn about Roma language and how it cannot be recorded and is hard to capture as the language changes over the globe.
It is a good book and one of my most memorable reads. To understand the traveller culture then read this book. Another good book I had read was Stopping Places by Simon Evans
It is also interesting to learn about Roma language and how it cannot be recorded and is hard to capture as the language changes over the globe.
It is a good book and one of my most memorable reads. To understand the traveller culture then read this book. Another good book I had read was Stopping Places by Simon Evans
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bury me standing
If you are interested in Gypsies and they're life this a great book to read. She's spent enough time living with them to be able to look from the inside out as well as the other... Read more
Published 10 months ago by MrNatural
Bury me standing. I've been on my knees all my life.
This is a very important book which brings together a series of contemporary accounts of the author's sojourn amongst the Roma of eastern Europe (akin to an anthropological... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mr. A. J. Flynn
PLAGIARISM and unethical
her agent got people who knew nothing about Gypsies to review this. they were glitterati linked to her famous husband. All non social scientists. Read more
Published 13 months ago by ROMANYRYE
awful!!!!
I ordered this book before Xmas (it's now February) and wondered why it hadn't arrived. Fortunately it was not for a present but for my own interest as one who is involved in work... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Winnie woo
Gypsies
Iam still reading this book.It is interesting but not quite what I expected and I hope further on the travellers and gypies in England and Scotland get a mention
Published 19 months ago by jane eyre
bury me standing
A really intelligent in depth study of gypsies and their origin and the problems that currently face them, very relevant at the moment taken the racism by France towards roma
Published 21 months ago by Anna
Travelogue, history, ethnography...
What is this book? A history? A sociology? A primary source, an ethnography? A travel book? It is all of these things in turn. Read more
Published on 11 Mar 2007 by E N Cuentro
ANOTHER FOOLISH ATTEMPT.
ONCE AGAIN NON-GYPSIES HAVE MISUNDERSTOOD US. SHE MISUNDERSTANDS THAT WE HAVE SEPERATE DIALECTS AND POINTS OUT THINGS ABOUT IT SHE DONT KNOW. Read more
Published on 28 Nov 1997
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