![]() First edition | |
Author | Lea Ypi |
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Publisher | Allen Lane |
Publication date | 28 October 2021 |
Pages | 336 [1] |
ISBN | 978-0-241-48185-1 |
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History is a 2021 book by Lea Ypi published by Penguin Books. [1] In the book, Ypi details her experience growing up before and after the fall of communism in Albania. [2]
Free was shortlisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize and the 2021 Costa Book Award for biography. [3] [4] In January 2022, BBC Radio 4 serialised the book in their Book of the Week series. [5]
Free won the Ondaatje Prize [6] and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize. [7]
10,000 copies of the book were sold in November 2021. [2]
Ed O'Loughlin praised Ypi's use of subtext in the work. [8] Critics of the book have accused it of being communist apologia, an accusation that Ypi has denied. [2]
![]() First edition | |
Author | Lea Ypi |
---|---|
Publisher | Allen Lane |
Publication date | 28 October 2021 |
Pages | 336 [1] |
ISBN | 978-0-241-48185-1 |
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History is a 2021 book by Lea Ypi published by Penguin Books. [1] In the book, Ypi details her experience growing up before and after the fall of communism in Albania. [2]
Free was shortlisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize and the 2021 Costa Book Award for biography. [3] [4] In January 2022, BBC Radio 4 serialised the book in their Book of the Week series. [5]
Free won the Ondaatje Prize [6] and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize. [7]
10,000 copies of the book were sold in November 2021. [2]
Ed O'Loughlin praised Ypi's use of subtext in the work. [8] Critics of the book have accused it of being communist apologia, an accusation that Ypi has denied. [2]