The Color of Smoke: An Epic Novel of the Roma
A Fiction, Historical book. Every world forms its own people, and every person his own world. The two live within one another...
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ENGLISHa timeless tribute to one of the world’s most marginalized peoples and the riveting tale of one boy’s journey to manhoodSweeping 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...
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Every world forms its own people, and every person his own world. The two live within one another as best they can. Menyhert Lakatos, The Color of Smoke: An Epic Novel of the Roma //
"Menyhrt Lakatos is acclaimed as Hungarys foremost Romani author, and his novel Fstos kpek, translated by Ann Major as The Color of Smoke is considered to be his magnum opus. It is semi-autobiographical, based loosely on his own experiences as a young man coming of age in Hungary ln the 1930s and early 1940s. . It is a picaresque and... "We are people who can put up with a lot of things, but there is such a thing as a last straw."I enjoyed this dark history, something we don't often get an insider's view of. The superstious nature of the people tickled me, particularly fearing the ghost of the woman who died from guzzling lye. Their culture is certainly shrouded in... A novel written in the mid-70s by a Hungarian Roma (Gypsy) writer. It's semi-autobiographical, and I couldn't begin to guess how closely it matches the author's actual life. It begins in the narrator's childhood, around the early or mid 1930s, as the first generation in his family to grow up living a settled life in a town (instead...
