``Gypsies`` have lived among Europeans since the Middle Ages.
Yet Roms still seem exotic to Westerners, who often rely on fictional depictions for what they know, or think they know, about this much-misunderstood people.
The Romani Gypsies challenges stereotypes that have long been the unwelcome travel companions of this community in Europe and the New World.
Yaron Matras offers a perspective-changing account of who the Roms are, how they live today, and how they have survived over cen.
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