The Roads of the Roma

A PEN anthology of Gypsy writers

Edited by Ian Hancock, Siobhan Dowd and Rajko Djuric

In this unique anthology, Romani poets and writers from twenty countries address a devastating legacy of slavery, pogroms, expulsions, hangings, fire bombings and genocide. Forty-three poems and prose extracts, most appearing in English for the first time, are arranged alongside an 800-year chronology of repression. Professor Ian Hancock’s introduction traces the growth of a written literature out of an oral tradition. What emerges is a portrait of a people struggling to preserve their identity in a hostile world.

 

"The Roads of the Roma has taken me into a new world of great beauty, imagination and mystery. The 'invisible people' step into the light along a path of poetry"
Antonia Fraser

 

"This anthology of the best Roma poets and writers has been sensitively compiled and ends with biographies of the authors. Excellent translations"
Romano Centro

 

ISBN-10 0-900458-90-9

ISBN-13 978-0-900458-90-3

October 1998, 160pp

Paperback £11.99 / US$23.95

 

See also Ian Hancock’s We are the Romani People.