Indignity: A Life Reimagined

"A viral social media post of her grandmother’s honeymoon photo in Mussolini’s Italy sparked Albanian philosopher Lea Ypi to reimagine Leman Ypi’s remarkable life. Indignity is part memoir, part historical reconstruction of the Balkans’ 20th-century turmoil: wars, dictatorships, forced migrations and sweeping societal upheavals. It is also a work of philosophy, exploring the meaning of dignity and its absence. With the narrative grace of a novelist and the depth of a philosopher, Ypi, whose previous memoir, Free, has been translated into 30 languages, crafts a story that feels both intimate and profound."