-Titulo Original : Free A Child And A Country At The End Of History
-Fabricante :
W. W. Norton & Company
-Descripcion Original:
Review 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 (she skewers Stalinism and the World Bank with equal deadpan) and truly profound...Free is meant to inspire. Max Strasser, New York TimesA young life unfolding amid great historical change: ideology, war, loss, uncertainty. This is history brought memorably and powerfully to life. Tara Westover, author of EducatedFree is astonishing. Lea Ypi has a natural gift for storytelling. It brims with life, warmth, and texture, as well as her keen intelligence. A gripping, often hilarious, poignant, psychologically acute masterpiece, and the best book I’ve read so far this year. Olivia Sudjic, author of Asylum RoadIlluminating and subversive, Free asks us to consider what happens to our ideals when they come into contact with imperfect places and people, and what can be salvaged from the wreckage of the past. Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in TehranWritten by an intellectual with storytelling gifts, Free makes life on the ground in modern-day Albania vivid and immediate. Vivian Gornick, author of The Odd Woman and the CityA new classic that bursts out of the global silence of Albania to tell us human truths about the politics of the past hundred years… revelation after revelation both familial and national as if written by a master novelist. As if it were, say, a novella by Tolstoy. That this very serious book is so much fun to read is a compliment to its graceful, witty, honest writer. A literary triumph. Amy Wilentz, author of Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From HaitiLea Ypi is a pathbreaking philosopher who is also becoming one of the most important public thinkers of our time.… This extraordinary book is both personally moving and politically revolutionary. If we take its lessons to heart, it can help to set us free. Martin Hagglund, author of This LifeFree is one of those very rare books that shows how history shapes people’s lives and their politics. Lea Ypi is such a brilliant, powerful writer that her story becomes your story. Ivan Krastev, coauthor of The Light That FailedWritten by one of Europe’s foremost left-wing thinkers, this is an unmissable book for anyone engaged in the politics of resistance. Paul Mason, author of PostcapitalismThis extraordinary coming-of-age story is like an Albanian Educated, but it is so much more than that. David Runciman, author of How Democracy EndsA lyrical memoir, of deep and affecting power, of the sweet smell of humanity mingled with flesh, blood, and hope. Philippe Sands, author of The RatlineUtterly engrossing . . . Ypis memoir is brilliantly observed, politically nuanced and - best of all - funny. Stuart Jeffries, GuardianA uniquely engaging and illuminating account of a young life during a period of intense turmoil... Free offers gem after gem of the bizarre reality that Hoxhaism produced.....Detailing the absurdities of Hoxha’s regime from a child’s perspective, Ypi pulls off the remarkable feat of emphasizing their cruelty with a light and often humorous touch... Free concludes with important lessons about sustaining the ability to ‘reflect, apologize and learn,’ given that ‘people never make history under circumstances they choose.’ Misha Glenny, Times Literary SupplementPrecious little was known about life in communist Albania under Enver Hoxha. That strange world and its legacy is now stunningly brought to life in Lea Ypi’s Free. From protective doublespeak round the kitchen table to the uncertain, and unfulfilled promises of post-communism, Ypi offers a moving and compelling memoir of growing up in turbulent times, as well as a frank questioning of what it really means to be free. Frederick Studeman, Financial TimesFree is much more than a historical account of a country we know or care little about, except as a punchline for jokes about povert
-Fabricante :
W. W. Norton & Company
-Descripcion Original:
Review 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 (she skewers Stalinism and the World Bank with equal deadpan) and truly profound...Free is meant to inspire. Max Strasser, New York TimesA young life unfolding amid great historical change: ideology, war, loss, uncertainty. This is history brought memorably and powerfully to life. Tara Westover, author of EducatedFree is astonishing. Lea Ypi has a natural gift for storytelling. It brims with life, warmth, and texture, as well as her keen intelligence. A gripping, often hilarious, poignant, psychologically acute masterpiece, and the best book I’ve read so far this year. Olivia Sudjic, author of Asylum RoadIlluminating and subversive, Free asks us to consider what happens to our ideals when they come into contact with imperfect places and people, and what can be salvaged from the wreckage of the past. Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in TehranWritten by an intellectual with storytelling gifts, Free makes life on the ground in modern-day Albania vivid and immediate. Vivian Gornick, author of The Odd Woman and the CityA new classic that bursts out of the global silence of Albania to tell us human truths about the politics of the past hundred years… revelation after revelation both familial and national as if written by a master novelist. As if it were, say, a novella by Tolstoy. That this very serious book is so much fun to read is a compliment to its graceful, witty, honest writer. A literary triumph. Amy Wilentz, author of Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From HaitiLea Ypi is a pathbreaking philosopher who is also becoming one of the most important public thinkers of our time.… This extraordinary book is both personally moving and politically revolutionary. If we take its lessons to heart, it can help to set us free. Martin Hagglund, author of This LifeFree is one of those very rare books that shows how history shapes people’s lives and their politics. Lea Ypi is such a brilliant, powerful writer that her story becomes your story. Ivan Krastev, coauthor of The Light That FailedWritten by one of Europe’s foremost left-wing thinkers, this is an unmissable book for anyone engaged in the politics of resistance. Paul Mason, author of PostcapitalismThis extraordinary coming-of-age story is like an Albanian Educated, but it is so much more than that. David Runciman, author of How Democracy EndsA lyrical memoir, of deep and affecting power, of the sweet smell of humanity mingled with flesh, blood, and hope. Philippe Sands, author of The RatlineUtterly engrossing . . . Ypis memoir is brilliantly observed, politically nuanced and - best of all - funny. Stuart Jeffries, GuardianA uniquely engaging and illuminating account of a young life during a period of intense turmoil... Free offers gem after gem of the bizarre reality that Hoxhaism produced.....Detailing the absurdities of Hoxha’s regime from a child’s perspective, Ypi pulls off the remarkable feat of emphasizing their cruelty with a light and often humorous touch... Free concludes with important lessons about sustaining the ability to ‘reflect, apologize and learn,’ given that ‘people never make history under circumstances they choose.’ Misha Glenny, Times Literary SupplementPrecious little was known about life in communist Albania under Enver Hoxha. That strange world and its legacy is now stunningly brought to life in Lea Ypi’s Free. From protective doublespeak round the kitchen table to the uncertain, and unfulfilled promises of post-communism, Ypi offers a moving and compelling memoir of growing up in turbulent times, as well as a frank questioning of what it really means to be free. Frederick Studeman, Financial TimesFree is much more than a historical account of a country we know or care little about, except as a punchline for jokes about povert



