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Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize • Winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Award Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award • Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction • Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by New Yorker , Washington Post , Financial Times, Guardian , Times Literary Supplement , Foreign Affairs , Public Books , Sunday Times In a memoir that is by turns “bitingly, if darkly, funny … and truly profound” (Max Strasser, New York Times ), Lea Ypi reflects on “freedom” as she recounts living through the end Communism in the Balkans as a child. “This is history brought memorably and powerfully to life” (Tara Westover, author of Educated ).