A False Dawn: My Life as a Gypsy Woman in Slovakia

A False Dawn: My Life as a Gypsy Woman in Slovakia
ISBN-10
190280600X
ISBN-13
9781902806006
Category
Romanies
Pages
246
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Author
Elena Lackova

Description

Ilona Lakova's darked skinned illiterate Gypsy father fell in love with her pale skinned Polish mother whilst a prisoner in Russia during the First World War. They returned to his mothers house in a Gypsy settlement on the edge of the village of Saris in Slovakia where their family of nine grew up, despised and mocked by the peasants on whom they depended for work. Ilona describes in simple unaffected language what it was like to be part of a tight knit community bound together by language, customs, music and a love of family, the spirit of Romipen.

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