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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey - Ebook written by Isabel Fonseca. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey.
31 de jan. de 2011 · In this fascinating and timely study, Fonseca focuses particularly on the gypsies in Eastern Europe (an estimated 6 million), and their future as a distinct race within a nationalist Europe. While researching the book, Fonseca learned Romany and stayed with the gypsies, becoming deeply involved with their lives, and befriending several gypsy kings.
1 de jan. de 2001 · 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.
Born. Fonseca studied on Columbia and Oxford. Writes for many newspapers and magazines, The Independent, Vogue, The Nation, The Wall Street Journal. For four years, she has been living with the Gypsies from Albany to Poland. Currently lives in London with her husband Martin Amis and their two daughters.
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.
Bury Me Standing. : Isabel Fonseca. Chatto & Windus, 1995 - Social Science - 322 pages. After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Romania, and Albania - listening to their stories and recording their attempts to become something ...
1 de jan. de 2008 · Author Isabel Fonseca sits in her kitchen, “tanking up on coffee.”. An American by birth and a New Yorker at heart, she remains in disbelief that she’s lived in England for over 25 years. “It’s payment for my sins,” she says. “Or maybe I just forgot to leave.”. Her tone has a throwaway flash to it.
