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The Color of Smoke: An Epic Novel of the Roma - Couverture souple

Lakatos, Menyhert

 
9780985062347: The Color of Smoke: An Epic Novel of the Roma
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0985062347 ISBN 13 : 9780985062347
Editeur : New Europe Books, 2015

Synopsis

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ENGLISH
a timeless tribute to one of the world’s most marginalized peoples and the riveting tale of one boy’s journey to manhood


Sweeping us into the world of the roma as fascism gathers force and the Holocaust looms on the horizon, The Color of Smoke is a thoroughly absorbing story that abounds in unforgettable characters. There is the adolescent narrator, torn between his people and a society that both entices him and rejects him. From his rise in school to his first sexual encounters, from hunger to police harassment, he treads a precarious path--one marked by moments of beauty and poignancy along with bawdiness, violence, and high adventure. And we come to know a people bound as much by a rich moral fabric as by the land and by the horses they love.


By an author who himself came of age in a Romani settlement during World War II, The Color of Smoke is a must read for anyone seeking a stunningly new, authoritative window onto the lives of the dispossessed--with haunting implications for today.Magisterial in scope and yet intensely personal, it combines beautiful prose with profound reflections on the human condition as only great literature can.

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À propos de l'auteur

Menyhért Lakatos (1926–2007) was the prizewinning author of many books. His magnum opus, The Color of Smoke--inspired by his own youth in a Romani settlement, and first published in Hungarian in 1975--has been translated into more than half a dozen languages.

Ann Major (1928-) has brought several Hungarian books to English, including Paul Lendvai's The Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat (Princeton University Press), and also translates from German. The author of a memoir, A Carpet of Jacaranda (Sydney Jewish Museum, 2013), she lives in Lane Cove, Australia.

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Éditeur
New Europe Books
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0985062347
ISBN 13 
9780985062347
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
480
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Personne responsable
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