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They travel endlessly and seem to appear almost everywhere, yet they are the world's most mysterious people: Gypsies. Isabel Fonseca has done the impossible, entering into their world, living and traveling with Gypsies during several long trips to Eastern Europe, and she has brought back an insightful, highly personal, and very readable account of who the Gypsies are and how they live. The Gypsies have a legendary aversion to "gadje," or outsiders, but Fonseca has lifted the curtain and written gracefully about their lives on the edge of society.
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In numerous visits to east central Europe, London-based journalist Fonseca has produced an intriguing and affecting portrait of the continent's largest minority. Her first-person narrative meanders, but not inappropriately: the Gypsies are homeless, and they lie zestfully, challenging the author, who remains skeptical despite her sympathy for her subjects. After recounting a summer in the Gypsy quarter of Tirana, Albania, she explores Gypsy history, then profiles women in the deracinated Bulgarian Gypsy culture. The book acquires urgency when Fonseca shows how antipathy toward, and violence against, Gypsies has escalated since the revolutions of 1989; the raw hatred she records is chilling. Meanwhile, western European countries implement harsh policies regarding refugees and "settling" the nomadic Gypsies. Unlike Jews, the Gypsies "have made an art of forgetting" their persecution (in the Holocaust, etc.); Fonseca sees a glimmer of hope in the fact that Gypsies are beginning to acquire a new collective identity as "Roma." This book gives a vital voice to a group long persecuted and misunderstood. Photos.
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The Indians of Europe, behind the stereotypes.,
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Everybody knows about the Gypsies. My mother pointed them out to me once, camped on a fifties backroad, perhaps in Colorado, as we drove by. They were dirty and dangerous; the movies had taught us that, and here they were, right in our backyards.Fonseca knows something else. She begins her book by dropping us into a Gypsy family in Albania, where we live with them for weeks, learning them as whole people with admirable traits and some not so admirable. And watching them clean their clothes, their children, their kitchens, putting the lie to the most essential reason for our distrust. The Gypsies don't think of the Holocaust as a special time of persecution. They have always been pariahs and persecuted. Fonseca's grim tour of Eastern Europe documents country after country where the Gypsies are hated by the majority and unprotected by the authorities. We leave the book wondering if the sick orgy of 'ethnic cleansing' in the Balkans was aimed not at religious differences but at the Gypsies. _Bury Me Standing_ documents the universal plight of the landless and non-technological in a world that defines civilization as property and things. Like the Indians, the Gypsies must compromise their most essential values in order to survive. Dirty Gypsies. Dirty Indians. The dirty Indians of the Great Plains bathed every morning, unlike the stinking, foul-mouthed soldiers who slaughtered them. Like the Indians, the Gypsies live behind a layer of almost opaque misconception; and like the Indians, their desire for privacy gives them no way to undo those misconceptions. Wisely structured, thoroughly researched, fleshing history with yesterday's news, illuminating this grim day with the lamps of the past, _Bury Me Standing_ is much more than a book about the quaint and fascinating Gypsies. Full review at www.dancingbadger.com. Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
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the success of this work is the dialogue initiate by it,
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If you view the comments here by those who read the book you can see that the significance of "Bury Me Standing" lies in the discourse it has evoked. To those who judge the book and find fault, your comments indicate that you have knowledge about this subject we all should be made aware of. Write your own story. And to those who enjoyed this work and learned about a culture they may not be from, your positive response even from a possibly biased or flawed work contributes toward a communal empathy any human should have for other disenfranchised people. The story here is not the writer, or the prose, or proper translation; the story is that this diasporic culture exists among us and trying to recognize them is a valuable endeavor. I would recommend this to those who are not turned-off by a descriptive rather than narrative style and for people who are interested in a few facets of the Gypsy diaspora.
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Eye-widening insights on every page,
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Having seen this book on someone's list somewhere, I bought it on impulse, mostly because I knew next to nothing about Gypsies, their history or their culture. All I had to start with were a few folktales from a collection I read a long time ago, and a vague recollection of having once read something in a book about the Holocaust.In many ways, this book is astonishing; not because it shocks (when it does do so, it is when pointing out the repeated persecution of Gypsies since their exodus from India), but because it provides insights into a culture perceived by outsiders as mysterious and secretive. For instance, I did not know before reading this book that Gypsies have a rich oral tradition, or why they have always had trouble staying settled in any one place, or how they regard their past, or what their hopes are for the future. The jacket blurb describes them as "the least understood people on earth," and Fonseca both illustrates how this misunderstanding is expressed, and enlightens us with as much of an insider's view as any gadje is ever likely to get Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
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