Little Money Street
Author | : Fernanda Eberstadt |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2008-12-18 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780307487575 |
ISBN-13 | : 0307487571 |
Rating | : 4/5 (571 Downloads) |
Download or read book Little Money Street written by Fernanda Eberstadt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1998, Fernanda Eberstadt, her husband, and their two small children moved from New York to an area outside Perpignan, France — a city with one of the largest Gypsy populations in Western Europe. Here she found a jealously guarded culture, a society made, in part, of lawlessness and defiance of non-Gypsy norms; and she met MoÏse Espinas, the lead singer of the Gypsy band, Tekameli. As her relationship with the Espinas family developed over the years, progressing from mutual bafflement to a deep-rooted friendship, Eberstadt found herself a part of the captivating Gypsy life–a life rich with tradition and culture, but slowly being consumed by the modern world.