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Free - Coming of Age at the End of History (Paperback)
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Loot Price R475
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Family and nation formed a reliable bedrock of security for
precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi. She was a Young Pioneer, helping to
lead her country toward the future of perfect freedom promised by
the leaders of her country, the People's Socialist Republic of
Albania. Then, almost overnight, the Berlin Wall fell and the
pillars of her society toppled. The local statue of Stalin, whom
she had believed to be a kindly leader who loved children, was
beheaded by student protestors. Uncomfortable truths about her
family's background emerged. Lea learned that when her parents and
neighbors had spoken in whispers of friends going to "university"
or relatives "dropping out," they meant something much more
sinister. As she learned the truth about her family's past, her
best friend fled the country. Together with neighboring
post-Communist states, Albania began a messy transition to join the
"free markets" of the Western world: a dystopia of pyramid schemes,
organized crime, and sex trafficking. Her father, despite his
radical left-wing convictions, was forced to fire workers; her
mother became a conservative politician on the model of Margaret
Thatcher. Lea's typical teen concerns about relationships and the
future were shot through with the existential: the nation was
engulfed in civil war. Ypi's outstanding literary gifts enable her
to weave together this colorful, tumultuous coming-of-age story in
a time of social upheaval with thoughtful, fresh, and invigorating
perspective on the relation between the personal and the political,
and on deep questions about freedom: What does freedom consist of,
and for whom? What conditions foster it? Who among us is truly
free?
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