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Author Ypi, Lea, 1979- author.

Title Free : a child and a country at the end of history / Lea Ypi.

Publication Info. New York : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2022.
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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 YPI    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY YPI    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO YPI    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY YPI    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B YPI L.    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B YPI    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  949.65 YPI    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO YPI    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B YPI, LEA    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Biography  B-YPI YPI    Check Shelf

Edition First American edition.
Description 267 pages ; 24 cm
Note First published in UK with subtitle: coming of age at the end of history.
Contents Stalin -- The other Ypi -- 471: a brief biography -- Uncle Enver is dead -- Coca-Cola cans -- Comrade Mamuazel -- They smell of sun cream -- Brigatista -- Ahmet got his degree -- The end of history -- Grey socks -- A letter from Athens -- Everyone wants to leave -- Competitive games -- I always carried a knife -- It's all part of civil society -- The crocodile -- Structural reforms -- Don't cry -- Like the rest of Europe -- 1997 -- Philosophers have only interpreted the world; the point is to change it.
Summary "A reflection on "freedom" in a dramatic, beautifully written memoir of the end of Communism in the Balkans. Lea Ypi grew up in the last Stalinist country in Europe: Albania, a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. While family members disappeared to what she was told were "universities" from which few "graduated", she swore loyalty to the Party. In her eyes, people were equal, neighbors helped each other, and children were expected to build a better world. Then the statues of Stalin and Hoxha were toppled. Almost overnight, people could vote and worship freely and invest in hopes of striking it rich. But factories shut, jobs disappeared and thousands fled to Italy, only to be sent back. Pyramid schemes bankrupted the country, leading to violence. One generation's dreams became another's disillusionment. As her own family's secrets were revealed, Lea found herself questioning what "freedom" really means. With acute insight and wit, Lea Ypi traces the perils of ideology, and what people need to flourish."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Ypi, Lea, 1979- -- Childhood and youth.
Albania -- History -- 20th century.
Albania -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Albanians -- Biography.
Political scientists -- Biography.
HISTORY / Europe / Eastern.
Albanians. (OCoLC)fst00804157
Political scientists. (OCoLC)fst01069858
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
Albania. (OCoLC)fst01226682
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
ISBN 9780393867732 (hardcover)
0393867730 (hardcover)
9780393867749 (epub)
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