The Year the Gypsies Came
Title | The Year the Gypsies Came PDF eBook |
Author | Linzi Glass |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Total Pages | 238 |
Release | 2015-06-16 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 162779686X |
Set in apartheid South Africa, this powerful and lyrically written novel is Linzi Glass's debut. As twelve-year-old Emily Iris explains it, her mother and father have always been eager to take in travelers and vagabonds, relying on the presence of outsiders to ease the tension between them. Emily has her gentle older sister, Sarah, and Buza, the old Zulu nightwatchman, for company and comfort. But her parents' continuing discontent leads them to welcome some peculiar strangers. One spring, a family of wanderers-a wildlife photographer, his wife, and two boys-comes to stay, and their strange, compelling, and dangerous presence will leave the Iris family infinitely changed.
The Year the Gypsies Came
Title | The Year the Gypsies Came PDF eBook |
Author | Linzi Glass |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2007-04-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0141320923 |
Emily Iris looks forward to the times her parents welcome house guests to their family's unhappy home. As long as the visitors are there, her mother and father will put their quarrels aside. But one spring a family of wanderers � an Australian couple and their two boys � comes to stay, starting a chain of events that will shatter Emily's world forever. Will appeal to readers of Jennifer Donnelly's A Gathering Light and Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible. On hardback publication this fabulous first novel attracted stunning acclaim.
American Gypsy
Title | American Gypsy PDF eBook |
Author | Oksana Marafioti |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 383 |
Release | 2012-07-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0374104077 |
Recounts the author's early experiences as a fifteen-year-old Gypsy emigrating with her family from the Soviet Union to the United States.
The Gypsies
Title | The Gypsies PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Yoors |
Publisher | Waveland Press |
Total Pages | 273 |
Release | 1987-09-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1478610638 |
At the age of twelve, Jan Yoors ran away from his cultural Belgian family to join a wandering band, a kumpania, of Gypsies. For ten years, he lived as one of them, traveled with them from country to country, shared both their pleasures and their hardshipsand came to know them as no one, no outsider, ever has. Here, in this firsthand and highly personal account of an extraordinary people, Yoors tells the real story of the Gypsies fascinating customs and their never-ending struggle to survive as free nomads in a hostile world. He vividly describes the texture of their daily life: the Gypsies as lovers, spouses, parents, healers, and mourners; their loyalties and enmities; their moral and ethical beliefs and practices; their language and culture; and the history and traditions behind their fierce pride. The exultant celebrations, the daring frontier crossings, the yearly horse fairs, the convoluted business deals in which Gypsy shrewdness combined with all the apparatus of modern technology are all brought to life in this memorable portrait of the most romanticized, yet most maligned and least-known people on earth. An insiders story, The Gypsies lifts the veil of secrecy that for so long has enshrouded this race of strangers in our midst.
Constructing Identities over Time
Title | Constructing Identities over Time PDF eBook |
Author | Jekatyerina Dunajeva |
Publisher | Central European University Press |
Total Pages | 157 |
Release | 2021-12-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9633866898 |
Jekatyerina Dunajeva explores how two dominant stereotypes—“bad Gypsies” and “good Roma”—took hold in formal and informal educational institutions in Russia and Hungary. She shows that over centuries “Gypsies” came to be associated with criminality, lack of education, and backwardness. The second notion, of proud, empowered, and educated “Roma,” is a more recent development. By identifying five historical phases—pre-modern, early-modern, early and “ripe” communism, and neomodern nation-building—the book captures crucial legacies that deepen social divisions and normalize the constructed group images. The analysis of the state-managed Roma identity project in the brief korenizatsija program for the integration of non-Russian nationalities into the Soviet civil service in the 1920s is particularly revealing, while the critique of contemporary endeavors is a valuable resource for policy makers and civic activists alike. The top-down view is complemented with the bottom-up attention to everyday Roma voices. Personal stories reveal how identities operate in daily life, as Dunajeva brings out hidden narratives and subaltern discourse. Her handling of fieldwork and self-reflexivity is a model of sensitive research with vulnerable groups.
Ruby Red
Title | Ruby Red PDF eBook |
Author | Linzi Glass |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Total Pages | 199 |
Release | 2008-03-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0141320931 |
In Ruby's world, colour matters. Her opulent Johannesburg neighbourhood is a far cry from the streets of Soweto where anger and hatred simmer under the surface. She might not see colour or race, but others do, especially when she falls for an Afrikaans boy.
Bury Me Standing
Title | Bury Me Standing PDF eBook |
Author | Isabel Fonseca |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 353 |
Release | 2011-09-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307761045 |
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.