Author: Isabel Fonseca

They travel endlessly and seem to appear almost everywhere, yet they are the world's most mysterious people: Gypsies. Fonseca has entered into their world, living and travelling with Gypsies during several long trips to Eastern Europe, and she has brought back an insightful, highly personal, and very readable account of who the Gypsies are and how they live. The Gypsies have a legendary aversion to 'gadje,' or outsiders, but Fonseca has lifted the curtain and written gracefully about their lives on the edge of society.