GYPSY BOY - Couverture souple

WALSH, MIKEY

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1250022029 ISBN 13 : 9781250022028

Editeur : Griffin, 2013

Synopsis

An Eye-Opening Memoir of Growing Up Gypsy

Mikey Walsh was born into a Romany Gypsy family. They live in a secluded community, and little is known about their way of life. After centuries of persecution, Gypsies are wary of outsiders, and if you choose to leave you can never come back.

This is something Mikey knows only too well.

Growing up, he didn't go to school, he seldom mixed with non-Gypsies, and the caravan became his world. It was a rich and unusual upbringing, but although Mikey inherited a vibrant and loyal culture, his family's legacy was bittersweet, with a hidden history of violence and grief. Eventually Mikey was forced to make an agonizing decision--to stay and keep secrets, or escape and find somewhere to belong.

Gypsy Boy shows, for the first time, what life is really like among the Romany Gypsies. A surprise #1 bestseller in Great Britain, this is a one-of-a-kind memoir of a little-seen world, one both fascinating and heartbreaking.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

MIKEY WALSH left the Gypsy community and moved to London. It is the longest he's ever stayed in one place. He taught himself to read and write and now works at a primary school as a teaching aid and also picks up the formal education he missed out on as a child. He is the author of the internationally bestselling memoir Gypsy Boy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Griffin
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1250022029
• ISBN 13: 9781250022028
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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