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From: Trevor Lockwood <trevor@author.co.uk>

AUTHOR PUBLISHING LTD

ADVANCE INFORMATION SHEET

TITLE: Roma: A People on the Edge

ISBN: 1 898030 64 2

PRICE: � 9.50

AUTHOR: Martyn Clayton

Imprint: Braiswick

Publication Date: March 2003

Category: Social history

Specification: Papaperback, 250 pages, 140 x 216mm.

WHO WILL BUY Historians, readers of European social history, those
interested in Gypsy history and culture. Local government officers,
police and anyone coming into contact with Gypsies.

This is contested and controversial ground. Written by a gadjo (or
gorgio; non-Romani) it is a dispassionate examination of the misery
inflicted on the Roma through the centuries.

The Roma have long been the subject of academic and literary attention,
but only over the past fifty years of so have they begun to claw back
the right to define who they are for themselves. This is a portrayal of
Gypsy matters as they really are for thousands of Romani families across
the world. It doesn�t always make for easy reading and some of the
full-frontal accounts of the horrors to which the Roma have been
subjected should not be read merely as literary shockers. Such accounts
are included because they happened and go some way to explaining the
feelings the Roma have towards the gadjo.

The Roma live somewhere in the back of our collective imagination,
either as wandering romantics in painted wagons, or scrounging eastern
Europeans refugees begging on our city streets. Neither image is correct
and it is these misconceptions are challenged in this book.

The author is a professional journalist, this book is carefully
researched and this book is a clear, readable account that should do
much to redress the image of the Gypsy.

More detail at www.author.co.uk/clayton

Trevor Lockwood

Author Publishing Ltd