Description
The first major novel about Eastern Europe's Roma, or Travelers (Gypsies), by a Romani author, The Color of Smoke is both a work of passion chronicling one young man's rise to manhood and an epic work that conjures up a dark era of world history. It is an undiscovered classic that has been published in several languages since its 1975 appearance in Hungary--but never before in English.
Inspired by the author's own boyhood in World War II-era Hungary, it is a beautifully written coming-of-age story of a Romani boy torn between the community of his birth and the mainstream society that both entices him and rejects him.
Author: Menyhert Lakatos
Publisher: New Europe Books
Published: 08/11/2015
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.60w x 1.40d
ISBN13: 9780985062347
ISBN10: 0985062347
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Menyhért Lakatos (1926-2007) was the prizewinning author of many books. His magnum opus, The Color of Smoke⎯inspired by his own youth in a Romani settlement, and first published in Hungarian in 1975⎯has been translated into more than half a dozen languages.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
Ann Major (1928-) has brought several Hungarian books to English, including Paul Lendvai's The Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat (Princeton University Press), and also translates from German. The author of a memoir, A Carpet of Jacaranda (Sydney Jewish Museum, 2013), she lives in Lane Cove, Australia.