| Little Money Street: In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France Contributor(s): Eberstadt, Fernanda (Author), Updike, John (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0307279421 ISBN-13: 9780307279422 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2007 Annotation: From the author of "The Furies" comes a beautifully reported story of Gypsies, the spellbinding, little-known France they have called home for centuries, and of her remarkable journey among them. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Europe - France - Travel | Essays & Travelogues |
| Dewey: 305.891 |
| Series: Vintage Departures |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 7.98" (0.45 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1998, Fernanda Eberstadt, her husband, and their two small children moved from New York to an area outside Perpignan, France -- a city with one of the largest Gypsy populations in Western Europe. Here she found a jealously guarded culture, a society made, in part, of lawlessness and defiance of non-Gypsy norms; and she met Mo se Espinas, the lead singer of the Gypsy band, Tekameli. As her relationship with the Espinas family developed over the years, progressing from mutual bafflement to a deep-rooted friendship, Eberstadt found herself a part of the captivating Gypsy life-a life rich with tradition and culture, but slowly being consumed by the modern world. |