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The acclaimed author of Free returns with an imaginative investigation into dignity and historical injustice through the story of a family When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps in 1941 posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with unsettling questions. Growing up, she was told records of her grandmother's youth were destroyed in the early days of communism in Albania. But there Leman was with her husband, Asllan Ypi- glamorous newlyweds while World War II raged. What follows is a thrilling reimagining of the past, as we are transported to the vanished world of Ottoman aristocracy, the making of modern Greece and Albania, a global financial crisis, the horrors of war and the dawn of communism in the Balkans. While investigating the truth about her family, Ypi grapples with uncertainty. Who is the real Leman Ypi? What made her move to Tirana as a young woman and marry a socialist who sympathized with the Popular Front while his father led a collaborationist government? And why was she smiling in the winter of 1941? By turns epic and intimate, profound and gripping, Indignity explores what it means to survive in an age of extremes. It reveals the fragility of truth, both personal and political, and the cost of decisions made against the tide of history. Through secret police reports of communist spies, court depositions, and Ypi's memories of her grandmother, we move between present and past, archive and imagination, fact and fiction. Ultimately, she asks, what do we really know about the people closest to us? And with what moral authority do we judge the acts of previous generations?

About the Author :
Lea Ypi holds the Ralph Miliband Chair in Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Her first trade book, Free- Coming of Age at the End of History won the Ondaatje Prize and the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Costa Biography Award. It is translated into over thirty languages.

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A magical literary feat and one of the most touching books I’ve read this year... It reminded me variously of Kafka and Bulgakov at his most heartbroken Really compelling stories... like Gabriel García Márquez at times... riveting Beguiling and moving... a clever hybrid, happily exploiting all the many possibilities of telling a life story. In the process, not only is the life of an individual described and plotted with great success, but also a form of oblique history of 20th-century Albania is offered, illuminating all its perversities, absurdities and ruthlessness... Ypi has tried in her complex narrative to restore a sense of dignity to her grandmother’s rackety, alternately cursed and fortunate, history-buffeted life... She has triumphantly achieved her objective Troubled by a photo of her grandmother, Lea Ypi delves into archive and memory to uncover the truth... A richly reimagined retelling of a life... history brought to life through novelistic style. Suspenseful... thought-provoking Stunningly multilayered, spans the decline of the Ottoman empire to the rise of fascism in Europe to the Soviet era... On the surface, there is the drama and emotion of Leman’s story. Underneath, there is philosophy, literature, history and more... Indignity explores what happens when philosophies meet history, when decisions have to be made at the point of a gun In Indignity Ypi tells a complicated story engagingly, and fills in many of the gaps left open in Free... A triumph Virtually unique in English... blending fact and fiction, Ypi sweeps the reader along How women struggle to survive in dangerous times is one of the themes of Ypi’s bold new book... Although she has a novelist’s instinct for dramatic incident and psychological nuance, Indignity is very much a philosopher’s book as well, since the different characters embody different attitudes – Kantian, Stoic, Nietzschean, more cynical and pragmatic – to dignity and morality A master class in recovering truth from history, regaining integrity after its wounds, and finding the meaning that time and memory conspire to prevent us from grasping Lea Ypi goes deep into Europe’s forgotten past to explore who owns the story of a life and who gets to tell it. A gripping tale of secret police, fractured families and undying loyalties, this is also a remarkable reflection on how history is made and what happens to the people who get left behind


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780241785379
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Allen Lane
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Sub Title: A Life Reimagined
  • Width: 153 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0241785375
  • Publisher Date: 04 Sep 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 27 mm
  • Weight: 500 gr


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