gypsies

Janeal agrees to help Salazar Sanso recover a vast sum of money from her father in exchange for freedom from her father's Gypsy culture, but when the plan takes a violent turn and Sanso burns the camp to the ground, Janeal is forced to make a decision that will haunt her forever.

The wrath of the Old Witch changes how a farmer and his wife think about gypsies.

A novel presented from multiple viewpoints, told by the interviewees of a bereaved lover trying to collect the life story of the late Athena, a Gypsy orphan raised by a Lebanese Christian couple and shaped by journeys in Europe and the Middle East before she settled in London, where her magical gifts, cult following, and refusal to live by the rules of her time or abandon her dreams made her the victim of a witch hunt.

An account of the Gypsy way of life, including its origins, history, traditions, customs, occupations, and the changes that modern living has occasioned.

Emil, the son of Josef, leader of a nomadic group of Coppersmith Gypsies in Czechoslovakia, lives an idyllic life until the Nazis invade the country and send the gypsies to live in a labor camp. Urged by his mother to escape, Emil is helped by an old friend of his father's and returns to find his mother has been sent to Auschwitz.

Small-time private detective Ray Lovell lies delirious in a hospital bed. Before he had the accident that landed him in the hospital, he had been hired to find Rose Janko, the estranged daughter of a traveling Romany family. Because he is half Romany himself, he is aware that he was hired because of that and is surprised at the hostility he has encountered from the Jankos as the case progressed. As he struggles to get better he wonders if they're hiding a terrible secret connected to Rose's disappearance.

The genocide of the Gypsies by the Nazis has not received that much attention. After the final liberation of the death camps in 1945, Gypsy survivors did not commit their stories to paper but, in most cases, tried to forget the horrors they had experienced. A few passed on their accounts by word of mouth. The authors of this book first began to assemble documentation and gather eyewitness accounts in 1969 in order to support claims for reparations. In the years since, more stories have emerged. Some Gypsies fought with the partisans and some non-Gypsies tried to protect them at the risk of their own lives.

Living alone in her wagon on the outskirts of a small town while waiting for her father's return, Rizka, a Gypsy and a trickster, exposes the ridiculous foibles of some of the townspeople.

Miranda's unbearable home life causes her to run away to the gypsies where she finds a surprisingly satisfying life.