{"product_id":"indignity-a-life-reimagined-hardcover","title":"Indignity: A Life Reimagined - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLea Ypi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe author of \u003ci\u003eFree \u003c\/i\u003ereturns with an extraordinary inquiry into historical injustice, dignity, truth, and imagination. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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 all 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat follows is a thrilling reimagining of the past, spanning the vanished world of Ottoman aristocracy, the making of modern Greece and Albania, a global financial crisis, and 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 meet a socialist who sympathized with the Popular Front while his father led a collaborationist government? And, above all, why was she smiling in the winter of 1941? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy turns epic and intimate, profound and gripping, \u003ci\u003eIndignity \u003c\/i\u003eshows what it is like to make choices against the tide of history--and reveals the fragility of truth, collective and personal. 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. With what moral authority do we judge the acts of previous generations? And what do we really know about the people closest to us?\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLea Ypi\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of political theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science. A native of Albania and a prizewinning academic, she was named one of the most important thinkers in the world in 2022 by \u003ci\u003eProspect \u003c\/i\u003emagazine. Her previous book, \u003ci\u003eFree: Coming of Age at the End of History\u003c\/i\u003e, was an international bestseller and won several prestigious prizes; it will be published in more than twenty-five countries. She contributes regularly to \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.47 x 5.77 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 04, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44810287808614,"sku":"9780374614096","price":37.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/M2jhrackEF9780374614096.webp?v=1771610078","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/indignity-a-life-reimagined-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}