The Color Of Smoke
Sweeping us into the world of the Roma as fascism gathers force and the Holocaust looms on the horizon, The Color of Smoke is a thoroughly absorbing story that abounds in unforgettable characters.
There is the adolescent narrator, torn between his people and a society that both entices him and rejects him. From his rise in school to his first sexual encounters, from hunger to police harassment, he treads a precarious path—one marked by moments of beauty and poignancy along with bawdiness, violence, and high adventure.
Sweeping us into the world of the Roma as fascism gathers force and the Holocaust looms on the horizon, The Color of Smoke is a thoroughly absorbing story that abounds in unforgettable characters.
There is the adolescent narrator, torn between his people and a society that both entices him and rejects him. From his rise in school to his first sexual encounters, from hunger to police harassment, he treads a precarious path—one marked by moments of beauty and poignancy along with bawdiness, violence, and high adventure.
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Sweeping us into the world of the Roma as fascism gathers force and the Holocaust looms on the horizon, The Color of Smoke is a thoroughly absorbing story that abounds in unforgettable characters.
There is the adolescent narrator, torn between his people and a society that both entices him and rejects him. From his rise in school to his first sexual encounters, from hunger to police harassment, he treads a precarious path—one marked by moments of beauty and poignancy along with bawdiness, violence, and high adventure.
