﻿ TY - BOOK DB - /z-wcorg/ DP - http://worldcat.org ID -
32387216 LA - English T1 - Bury me standing : the Gypsies and
their journey A1 - Fonseca, Isabel., David Lindroth Inc.,, PB -
Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York Y1 - 1995/// SN - 0679406786
9780679406785 AB - 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 fr