In the 1950s the Romani people lived on the brink of great change. In their bright wooden wagons they journeyed between horse-fairs and traditional stopping places - stoic, humorous and wild, often poverty-stricken but protective of their freedom - on the fringes of a society that was soon to close around them. Dominic Reeve describes his life among the Gypsies: the feuds and fairs, the joyful muddy squalor of an outdoor existence. He evokes an unforgettable cast of fireside characters - bold children, fierce matriarchs and dandyish villains in snap-brimmed hats - and tells of sharp deals done and rings run round country policemen, of love affairs, dances and open-air feasting. Smoke in the Lanes is the vivid, memorable and unsparing record of a disappeared world.
Autorentext
Autorentext
Dominic Reeve wrote Smoke in the Lanes, his first book, in 1958. Since then he has written four more books including Beneath the Blue Sky: Four Decades of the Gypsy Traveller Life. He lives and works in a semi-nomadic style with his partner, Beshlie, an illustrator.
Titel
Smoke in the Lanes
Untertitel
Happiness and Hardship on the Road with the Gypsies in the 1950s
Autor
EAN
9780748128648
ISBN
978-0-7481-2864-8
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
01.09.2011
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
1.67 MB
Anzahl Seiten
352
Jahr
2011
Untertitel
Englisch
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