Anyone hot on an anthropological account of Europe’s eight million Gypsies will enjoy Isabel Fonseca’s Bury Me Standing (Chatto & Windus, £18.99, ISBN 070 11 38513) From the poor traders of Albania to Bulgaria’s glue-sniffing youth to the women who sell their 12-year-old daughters into marriage, Fonseca examines popular myths about the roaming Romany. Some of them, she discovers, are true.
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