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Bury Me Standing

  • Isabel Fonseca

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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.

Genres

  • Gypsies
  • History
  • Romanies
  • Social conditions
  • Socialconditions
  • Zigeuners
  • Discriminatie
  • Vervolgingen
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  • Isabel Fonseca

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Editions

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    New Ed edition

    Vintage

    September 5, 1996

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    Alfred A. Knopf

    1996

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    Vintage

    September 5, 1996

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    1st ed.

    Knopf

    1995

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Vintage

October 29, 1996

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    Chatto & Windus

    1995

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    Penguin Random House

    2011

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    Penguin Random House

    2011