An edition of Bury Me Standing (1995)

Bury me standing

the gypsies and their journey

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An edition of Bury Me Standing (1995)

Bury me standing

the gypsies and their journey

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After the revolutions of 1989, the author 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 this book, 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. The author 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.

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Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Language
English
Pages
322

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Cover of: Bury Me Standing
Bury Me Standing
2011, Penguin Random House
in English
Cover of: Bury Me Standing
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
2011, Penguin Random House
in English
Cover of: Bury Me Standing
Bury Me Standing
September 5, 1996, Vintage
Paperback - New Ed edition
Cover of: Bury Me Standing
Bury Me Standing
September 5, 1996, Vintage
Cover of: Bury me standing
Bury me standing: the Gypsies and their journey
1996, Alfred A. Knopf
in English
Cover of: Bury Me Standing
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
October 29, 1996, Vintage
Paperback in English
Cover of: Bury me standing
Bury me standing: the Gypsies and their journey
1995, Knopf
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Bury me standing
Bury me standing: the gypsies and their journey
1995, Chatto & Windus
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliography: p307-315. - and index.

Published in
London

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Dewey Decimal Class
305.891497047

The Physical Object

Pagination
[x],322p. :
Number of pages
322

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17274183M
Internet Archive
burymestandinggy0000fons
ISBN 10
0701138513
Library Thing
17815
Goodreads
304336

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USUALLY ON MY journeys in Eastern Europe I traveled alone and made friends along the way.
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