Isabel Fonseca was born in New York and educated at Columbia University and Oxford. She was an assistant editor at the Times Literary Supplement and has written for a wide range of publications, from the Wall Street Journal to Vogue. Her first book, Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey, was an international bestseller. She lives in London with her husband and their two daughters.
A Gypsy once said to Fonseca: 'You will never learn our language. For every word you record in your little notebook, we have another one we don't want you to know.' Undaunted, she wrote this passionate and frank account of her travels among Roma (their name for their people), and of their 600-year history in Europe. Enslaved in 15th-century Transylvania, imprisoned in Nazi death camps, seeking asylum in Germany: Gypsies have learnt to survive by secrecy and self-misrepresentation - but can they find a collective voice in the arena of international ethnic politics? (Kirkus UK)