num_pages: 267
description: Set in apartheid South Africa, this powerful and lyrically written novel is Linzi Glass's debut.As twelve-year-old Emily Iris explains it, her mother and father have always been eager to take in travelers and vagabonds, relying on the presence of outsiders to ease the tension between them. Emily has her gentle older sister, Sarah, and Buza, the old Zulu nightwatchman, for company and comfort. But her parents' continuing discontent leads them to welcome some peculiar strangers. One spring, a family of wanderers--a wildlife photographer, his wife, and two boys--comes to stay, and their strange, compelling, and dangerous presence will leave the Iris family infinitely changed.
language: English
title: The Year the Gypsies Came
titlecomplete: The Year the Gypsies Came
genres: Family, Fiction, 20th Century, South Africa, Contemporary, Teen, Young Adult, Historical, Historical Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 630
places: South Africa, Johannesburg
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Zilveren Zoen
publisher: Penguin Books