title: The Roads of the Roma: A PEN Anthology of Gypsy Writers (Pen American Center's Threatened Literature Series)
author: Siobhan Hancock
description: ...unuttered sentences...minarets of grass...a grave in the air...tarots of memory...petals of skull...the dusty violin...white horses, distant plains...a gathering of silent hearts...ashes and lime...
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  The Last of the Magi
  
  
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  The Last of the Magi
  
  
  Book I
  
  
  The Devouring
  
  
  Story by G.S. Eli
  
  
  G. S. Eli and Patrick Wiley
  
  
  ©2020 by G.S. Eli & Patrick Wiley
  
  
  All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or
  used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the
  publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
  
  
  ISBN-13: 9780692848401
  
  
  ISBN-10: 0692848401
  
  
  This novel is dedicated to the countless Roma who lost their lives at the
  hands of the Nazis in the Porajmos.
  
  
  May we never forget those who were maliciously targeted in one of the darkest
  periods in history.
  
  
  Te aven yerto
  
  
  (Rest in peace)
  
  
  Dear Reader,
  
  
  Growing up a Romani boy in America, my parents kept me out of school, as is
  tradition, so I never formally learned how to read and write or about history
  for that matter. I did attend some school, but too little to be con- sidered
  fully literate by anybody’