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Family secrets amid the overthrow of the regime in Albania
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“Free, a child and a country at the end of history”, by Lea Ypi.
The story will be published in French in the fall by Seuil.
© Norton & Company
By: Sylvie Noël Follow
In 1990, when the Albanian dictatorship was overthrown, Lea Ypi was 11 years old.
In her story,
Free, a child and a country at the end of history
published by Norton & Company, the one who is now a professor of political theory at the London School of Economics, offers us a reflection on the freedom that Albanians coveted so much during the overthrow of the communist regime and that was sometimes only a mirage.
It recounts the collapse of communism, the ravages of liberalism, but also the personal upheaval that this revolution engenders in the little girl brought up in the cult of the dictator Enver Hoxha.
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Albania
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