Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey, by Isabel Fonseca (TPB, 1995, $1.75)
"Now a diaspora of twelve million, their culture remains largely obscure."
The author "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; and, most recently, evicted from their settlements by nationalist mobs throughout the new "democracies" of Eastern Europe."
Find this book on the new non-fiction table, or eventually in the European section, avail. 10/5.
