For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albaniaās Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordained future, a guarantee of security among enthusiastic comrades. That is, until she found herself clinging to a stone statue of Joseph Stalin, newly beheaded by student protests.
Communism had failed to deliver the promised utopia. Oneās ābiographyāāclass status and other associations long in the pastāput strict boundaries around oneās individual future. When Leaās parents spoke of relatives going to āuniversityā or āgraduating,ā they were speaking of grave secrets Lea struggled to unveil. And when the early ā90s saw Albania and other Balkan countries exuberantly begin a transition to the āfree market,ā Western ideals of freedom delivered chaos: a dystopia of pyramid schemes, organized crime, and sex trafficking.
With her elegant, intellectual, French-speaking grandmother; her radical-chic father; and her staunchly anti-socialist, Thatcherite mother to guide her through these disorienting times, Lea had a political education of the most colorful sortāhere recounted with outstanding literary talent. Now one of the worldās most dynamic young political thinkers and a prominent leftist voice in the United Kingdom, Lea offers a fresh and invigorating perspective on the relation between the personal and the political, between values and identity, posing urgent questions about the cost of freedom.
This book title, Free (A Child and a Country at the End of History), ISBN: 9780393867732, by Lea Ypi, published by W. W. Norton & Company (January 18, 2022) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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