{"product_id":"indignity-a-life-reimagined-9780374614096","title":"Indignity: A Life Reimagined","description":"\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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/04\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374614096\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/08\/2025\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lea Ypi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51708072526005,"sku":"9780374614096","price":24.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_ea0f6420-e2c3-4af9-b3cd-83c12ff3dcf9.jpg?v=1757397296","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/indignity-a-life-reimagined-9780374614096","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}