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The Roma
The Roma is a profoundly personal portrait of a people and their on-going journey, shedding new light on their history in countries through which they’ve travelled and in which they’ve settled, and what it means to be Romani in Europe today.
Blending meditative personal memoir, lyrical travel writing and absorbing history, The Roma brings to light the forgotten history of Romani communities throughout Europe from the sixteenth century to the present day. This is a history, for the general reader, of an othered and misunderstood people – and a celebration of resistance and resilience over prejudice and persecution.
‘Evocative and intriguing… As a tribute to storytelling and as a personal journey alike, this book is to be treasured’ Bidisha
Madeline Potter was born in Romania in 1989 and grew up Romani in nineties post-Communist Romania. She now lives in Scotland and is a scholar of nineteenth-century literature at the University of Edinburgh, having earned her PhD from the University of York in 2020.
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