Bury Me Standing by Isabel Fonseca

Bury Me Standing by Isabel Fonseca

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. 
 
Fabled, feared, romanticized, and reviled, the Gypsies--or Roma--are among the least understood people on earth. Their culture remains largely obscure, but in Isabel Fonseca they have found an eloquent witness.
 
In Bury Me Standing, alongside unforgettable portraits of individuals--the poet, the politician, the child prostitute--Fonseca offers sharp insights into the humor, language, wisdom, and taboos of the Roma. She traces their exodus out of India 1,000 years ago and their astonishing history of persecution: enslaved by the princes of medieval Romania; massacred by the Nazis; forcibly assimilated by the communist regimes; evicted from their settlements in Eastern Europe, and most recently, in Western Europe as well. Whether as handy scapegoats or figments of the romantic imagination, the Gypsies have always been with us--but never before have they been brought so vividly to life.
 
Includes fifty black and white photos.

Isabel Fonseca has written for a variety of periodicals, including The Independent, Vogue, The Nation, and The Wall Street Journal, in addition to her best-selling Bury Me Standing. She was born in New York and attended Columbia and Oxford Universities before settling in London with her husband, Martin Amis, and their two daughters.

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ISBN 13	9780679737438
ISBN 10	067973743X
Titel	Bury Me Standing
Autor	Isabel Fonseca
Serie	Vintage Departures
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Random House USA Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	1996-10-29
Seitenanzahl	352
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