# Zoli

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For the modelling agency, see [Zoli Agency](/source/Zoli_Agency).

***Zoli*** is a novel by [Colum McCann](/source/Colum_McCann). It follows the life of Marienka Novotna, nicknamed "Zoli", a Slovak [Romani](/source/Romani_people) woman, from her childhood in the 1930s, through her exile in the 1950s, to her late adult life. Although Zoli is a fictional character, her life is loosely based on that of the Polish Romani poet [Papusza](/source/Papusza) (Bronisława Wajs).

*Zoli* explores the [persecution of the Roma](/source/Antiziganism) faced during World War II, as well as the impact of totalitarianism on [Romani culture](/source/Romani_society_and_culture) and lifestyles and experiences of otherness and marginalisation faced by Romani people in Europe. The novel is written from multiple perspectives, that include both first and third person narration.

## See also

- [Fictional representations of Roma](/source/Fictional_representations_of_Roma)

## External links

- [Review of *Zoli* at Canada.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20121103015914/http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/books/story.html?id=48e838be-e37d-4d98-a756-79b3d100508d)
- [Compilation of Newspaper reviews at ReviewsOfBooks.com](http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/zoli/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415040639/http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/zoli/) April 15, 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ["Colum McCann's top 10 novels on poets"](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/oct/03/top10s.novels.poets), *The Guardian*, 3 October 2006
- [Radio interview](http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw070322colum_mccann/), Bookworm, 22 March 2007
- [Interview](http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/birnbaum_v/colum_mccann.php), The Morning News, 3 May 2007

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