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Author:
Lea Ypi
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
January 18, 2022
A reflection on freedom in a memoir of the end of Communism in the Balkans.
What The Reviewers Say
The book is packed with insights, on family as much as on politics. Ypi is a beautiful writer and a serious political thinker, and in just a couple hundred readable pages, she takes turns between being bitingly, if darkly, funny and truly profound.
Ypi’s memoir is instead brilliantly observed, politically nuanced and – best of all – funny.
... a brilliant hybrid of memoir and political theory.
... astonishing and deeply resonant.
