Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize - Winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Award Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award - Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction - Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by New Yorker , Washington Post , Financial Times, Guardian , Times Literary Supplement , Foreign Affairs , Public Books , Sunday Times In a memoir that is by turns "bitingly, if darkly, funny ... and truly profound" (Max ...
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Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize - Winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Award Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award - Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction - Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by New Yorker , Washington Post , Financial Times, Guardian , Times Literary Supplement , Foreign Affairs , Public Books , Sunday Times In a memoir that is by turns "bitingly, if darkly, funny ... and truly profound" (Max Strasser, New York Times ), Lea Ypi reflects on "freedom" as she recounts living through the end Communism in the Balkans as a child. "This is history brought memorably and powerfully to life" (Tara Westover, author of Educated ).
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