Zoli
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A major new novel about a gypsy woman exiled for betraying her
people, from the prize-winning author of DANCER The novel begins in
Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s when Zoli, a young Roma girl, is
six years old. The fascist Hlinka guards had driven most of her
people out onto the frozen lake and forced them to stay there until
the spring, when the ice cracked and everyone drowned - Zoli's
parents, brothers and sisters. Now she and her grandfather head off
in search of a 'company'. Zoli teaches herself to read and write
and becomes a singer, a privileged position in a gypsy company as
they are viewed as the guardians of gypsy tradition. But Zoli is
different because she secretly writes down some of her songs. With
the rise of the Nazis, the suppression of the gypsies intensifies.
The war ends when Zoli is 16 and with the spread of socialism, the
Roma are suddenly regarded as 'comrades' again. Zoli meets Stephen
Swann, a man with whom she will have a passionate affair, but who
will also betray her. He persuades Zoli to publish some of her
work. But when the government try to use Zoli to help them in their
plan to 'settle' gypsies, her community turns against her. They
condemn her to 'Pollution for Life', which means she is exiled
forever. She begins a journey that will eventually lead her to
Italy and a new life. Zoli is based very loosely on the true story
of the Gypsy poet, Papsuza, who was sentenced to a Life of
Pollution by her fellow Roma when a Polish intellectual published
her poems. But Colum has turned this into so much more - it's a
brilliantly written work that brings the culture and the time to
life.
Výber kníh autorov
W&N ,
Colum McCann
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W&N,
Colum McCann
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