Family secrets amid the overthrow of the regime in Albania


“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.

In 1990, when the Albanian dictatorship was overthrown, Lea Ypi was 11 years old. In his story, Free, a child and a country at the end of history published by Norton & Company, who is now a professor of political theory at the London School of Economics, offers us a reflection on the freedom that the Albanians coveted so much during the overthrow of the communist regime and which was sometimes not than 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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