Lea Ypi.
LEA YPI: BIOGRAPHY OF HER PARENTS
FREE: COMING OF AGE AT THE END OF HISTORY (2022)
Sunday Times best seller.
Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize.
Winner of Hatchards & Biographers’ Club First Biography Prize.
Family and nation formed a reliable bedrock of security for precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi. She was a Young Pioneer, the People's Socialist Republic of Albania. Then, almost overnight, the Berlin Wall fell and the pillars of her society toppled. She describes her family life during these tumultuous times.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lea Ypi, who was born in Albania in 1975, is a professor political theory at the London School of Economics. Her great grandfather was briefly Prime Minister of Albania in the 1920s. His son, Ypi’s grandfather, was imprisoned for fifteen years by by the communist Albanian government. Before joining the London School of Economics she was a post-doctoral research fellfow at Nuffield College, Oxford.
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