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by Lea Ypi

Published by Anagrama · Society and social sciences · ISBN 9788433904966

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Lea Ypi recounts her childhood and adolescence in communist Albania, the last Stalinist regime in Europe, and what changed when the regime fell in 1990, when she was eleven. Raised on the official doctrine, she couldn't understand why the statues of Hoxha and Stalin were coming down; democracy also brought family secrets to light, along with unemployment, emigration to Italy and the country's collapse.

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Who it's for
For readers of memoirs that double as political essays: it suits anyone who wants to think about what freedom means through a personal story, with touches of absurd humour. Some Albanian critics accused it of being an apology for communism, which the author denies.
Why people still read it
It won the Ondaatje Prize among other awards, was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Costa biography award, was serialised as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week and has been translated into more than twenty languages.

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