تاريخ النشر: 01/09/2002
الناشر: دار الساقي للطباعة والنشر
نبذة الناشر:Children of the Rainbow tackles a subject rarely mentioned, the plight of Central and East European Gypsies in the shadow of the Holocaust.
Through an absorbing combination of fact, fiction and mythology, farhi tells the story of branco, a Roma Gypsy baby born in the Auschwitz concentration camp, who receives the ...prophecy that he will be his people's saviour. Named Branko, after an inmate who has been compiling the Gypsy Bible, the baby is smuggled out of the compound and entrusted to a Red Cross official.
some thirty years on, after the death of his adoptive father, Branko sets out to remould his identity: he witnesses first-hand the relentless persecution of the Roma and comes to hear of the Gypsy bible that his namesake had miraculousty reclaimed from the collective memory of the Roma in Auschwitz. Hidden and awaiting discovery, the powerful book prophesies Branco's leadership, inder which the gypsies will be reunited and led to Romanestan, their mysterious homeland.
Moris Farhi was born in Ankara, Turkey. He studied himanities in Istanbul and drama at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. He has written numerous film and television scripts, novels and poetry. He is the author of the last of Days, and television journey through the Wilderness, also published by Saqi Books. Farhi is a fellow of the Royal society of literature, and a Vice-president of International PEN; he was oppointed an MBE in 2001 for services to literature. إقرأ المزيد