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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
by Isabel Fonseca

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Publisher Comments:

After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Romainia, and Albania — listening to their stories and recording their attempts to become something more than despised outsiders.

In Bury Me Standing, alongside unforgettable portraits of individuals — the poet, the politician, the child prostitute — are vivid insights into the wit, language, wisdom, and taboos of the Roma. In a compelling narrative account of this large and landless minority, Fonseca also traces their long-ago exodus out of India and their history of relentless persecution: enslaved by the princes of medieval Romania; massacred by the Nazis in what the Roma call "the Devouring"; forcibly assimilated by the communist regime; and, most recently, evicted from their settlements by nationalistic mobs in the new "democracies" of the East, and under violent attack in the Western countries to which many have fled.

Review:

"[Fonseca] details the discrimination that has kept the Gypsies...from development of an identity and acceptance by the international community." Library Journal

Review:

"[A]dmirably musters difficult material into a story of vividly sketched individuals and enlightening ideas." New York Times Book Review

Synopsis:

Isabel Fonseca describes the four years she spent with Gypsies from Albania to Poland, listening to their stories, deciphering their taboos, and befriending their matriarchs, activists, and child prostitutes. A masterful work of personal reportage, this volume is also a vibrant portrait of a mysterious people and an essential document of a disappearing culture. 50 photos.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780679737438
Subtitle:
The Gypsies and Their Journey
Author:
Fonseca, Isabel
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
History
Subject:
Sociology - General
Subject:
Government and political science
Subject:
Essays & Travelogues
Subject:
Gypsies
Subject:
Gypsies -- History.
Subject:
Romanies
Subject:
Eastern Europe - General
Copyright:
1995
Edition Description:
1st Vintage Departures ed.
Series Volume:
no. 33
Publication Date:
October 1996
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
336
Dimensions:
8.06x5.24x.78 in. .69 lbs.
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