Mezinárodní bestseller o dospívání po pádu železné opony. Co to znamená být svobodní? Tuto otázku si po roce 1989 položila polovina evropského kontinentu. A odpověď velmi závisela - a stále závisí - na tom, kdy a kde se člověk narodil. Jestliže v komunismu lidé toužili po konci represe a státního dohledu, v nastupujícím a mnohdy dravém kapitalismu si stýskali - a pořád si někdy stýskají - po existenčních jistotách, které jsou základním předpokladem osobní realizace a svobody. Albánská spisovatelka Lea Ypi si prožila obojí. Dětství v rodině disidentů a intelektuálů jí přepůlil rozpad sovětského bloku, a tak měla možnost pozorovat ostrý kontrast mezi hodžovskou komunistickou Albánií, v níž byla společnost apatická, a její kapitalistickou verzí, kdy se tatáž společnost kvůli bezuzdné tržní logice téměř rozpadla. Ypi se k těmto vzpomínkám vrací ve své mezinárodně úspěšné knize Svobodná a pokouší se nalézt odpověď na otázku, jak postsovětská doba ovlivnila naše pojetí svobody. A jestli vůbec můžeme a umíme být svobodní… Kniha roku 2021 podle The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, The Sunday Times a dalších

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE ONDAATJE PRIZE''The best book I read last year by a mile. . . so beautifully written that anyone would be hooked'' Laura Hackett, Sunday Times, Best Summer Books''Wonderfully funny and poignant. . . a tale of family secrets and political awakening amid a crumbling regime'' Luke Harding, Observer''We never lose our inner freedom; the freedom to do what is right''Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost in Europe, was almost impossible to visit, almost impossible to leave. It was a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. To Lea, it was home. People were equal, neighbours helped each other, and children were expected to build a better world. There was community and hope.Then, in December 1990, everything changed. The statues of Stalin and Hoxha were toppled. Almost overnight, people could vote freely, wear what they liked and worship as they wished. There was no longer anything to fear from prying ears. But factories shut, jobs disappeared and thousands fled to Italy on crowded ships, only to be sent back. Predatory pyramid schemes eventually bankrupted the country, leading to violent conflict. As one generation''s aspirations became another''s disillusionment, and as her own family''s secrets were revealed, Lea found herself questioning what freedom really meant.Free is an engrossing memoir of coming of age amid political upheaval. With acute insight and wit, Lea Ypi traces the limits of progress and the burden of the past, illuminating the spaces between ideals and reality, and the hopes and fears of people pulled up by the sweep of history.THE SUNDAY TIMES MEMOIR OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZECHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, TLS, DAILY MAIL, NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR

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