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Set in apartheid South Africa, this powerful and lyrically written novel is Linzi Glass's debut. As twelve-year-old Emily Iris explains it, her mother and fathe
The Gypsies
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Authors: Jan Yoors
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1987-09-01 - Publisher: Waveland Press

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At the age of twelve, Jan Yoors ran away from his cultural Belgian family to join a wandering band, a kumpania, of Gypsies. For ten years, he lived as one of th
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Jekatyerina Dunajeva explores how two dominant stereotypes—“bad Gypsies” and “good Roma”—took hold in formal and informal educational institutions i
Ruby Red
Language: en
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In Ruby Winters' world, colour opens some doors and slams others shut. Her opulent Johannesburg neighbourhood is a far cry from the streets of Soweto where ange
American Gypsy
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Pages: 383
Authors: Oksana Marafioti
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-03 - Publisher: Macmillan

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Recounts the author's early experiences as a fifteen-year-old Gypsy emigrating with her family from the Soviet Union to the United States.