Indignity
A Life Reimagined
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Indignity
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ナレーター：
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Lea Ypi
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Rachel Bavidge
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著者：
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Lea Ypi
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The author of Free returns with an extraordinary inquiry into historical injustice, dignity, truth, and imagination.
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 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.
What 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?
By turns epic and intimate, profound and gripping, Indignity shows 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?
"[Rachel] Bavidge's tone and delivery capture every emotion during author Lea Ypi's journey from repression to freedom.... Listeners will relish every moment." —AudioFile on Free
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
批評家のレビュー
“A captivating journey of imagination and longing, and a gentle uncovering of a deep buried history that goes to the very heart of identity with brilliant storytelling.” —Philippe Sands, author of East West Street
“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.” —David Runciman, author of The History of Ideas
“Renowned for making autobiography philosophical, the great Lea Ypi now plunges into the life and times of her grandmother, with exquisite and memorable results. The search for answers in a family past leads to infinite questions—and raises especially nagging and profound ones about how a dignified life is possible, especially when history continues to haunt our time.” —Samuel Moyn, author of Liberalism Against Itself and Humane