title: Little Money Street: In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France
author:  Fernanda Eberstadt 
description: <i>Starred Review.</i> When Eberstadt began knocking on doors in the Gypsy district of Perpignan, France, she thought she was going to write a book about a band: the renowned Gypsy rumba group Tekameli. The band's 1999 album <i>Ida y Vuelta</i> had made its members superstars in Europe. If she didn't land a meeting soon, Eberstadt feared, the group might abandon little Perpignan for "somewhere northern, rich, and cold"New York, Paris, Londonbefore she could ever find them. But when she finally befriended lead singer Moise Espinas, Eberstadt realized she'd worried over nothingTekameli will never leave Perpignan, at least not for fame or money. Everything they love is bound to the city's most rundown district, St. Jacques. "I have never been anywhere, including New York's Bowery in the 1970s, where you see more black eyes," Eberstadt writes. As she became more familiar with Espinas's wife and friends, her project evolved into something more difficult to categorize. Like Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's <i>Random Family</i>, Eberstadt's book reveals the values of an impoverished subculture by following the lives of a complex, loving family; it also includes enough Gypsy history to satisfy any flamenco or Gypsy rumba fan. A critically acclaimed novelist (<i>The Furies</i>, etc.), Eberstadt proves herself a master of nonfiction as well. <i>(Mar.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  # Other People's Money
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Emile Gaboriau
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
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  PART II. FISHING IN TROUBLED WATERS.
  
  
    
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  ## PART I
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  There is not, perhaps, in all Paris, a quieter street than the Rue
  
  
  St. Gilles in the Marais, within a step of the Place Royale. No
  
  
  carriages there; never a crowd. Hardly is the silence broken by the
  
  
  regulation drums of the Minims Barracks near by, by the chimes of the
  
  
  Church of St. Louis, or by the joyous clamors of the pupils of the
  
  
  Massin School during the h