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Book Review: “Free” — A Communist Childhood

May 18, 2022
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With gentle humor and insight, Lea Ypi draws rich portraits of the three caring adults she grew up with in the authoritarian world of her childhood in Albania.

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The Silent Resistance of Words

June 6, 2005
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Albanian writer reflects on winning the inaugural Man Booker International Prize for Fiction.

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