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  title info:
    title: Indignity
    sub title: a life reimagined
  name:
    name part: Ypi, Lea
    name part: 1979-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    edition: First American edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 340 pages : maps ; 22 cm
  abstract: "Interweaving two narrative strands that move between the present and the past, between fact and fiction, between what we know and what we can imagine about Lea Ypi's grandmother, who was suspected by the state of being a spy in communist Albania, Indignity is a radical philosophical exploration of dignity and its relationship to truth, ideology, identity, and historical memory"-- Provided by publisher.
  abstract: "When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps in 1941 posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with unsettling questions. Growing up, she was told all records of her grandmother's youth were destroyed in the early days of communism in Albania. But there Leman was with her husband, Asllan Ypi: glamorous newlyweds while World War II raged. What follows is a thrilling reimagining of the past, spanning the vanished world of Ottoman aristocracy, the making of modern Greece and Albania, a global financial crisis, and the horrors of war and the dawn of communism in the Balkans. While investigating the truth about her family, Ypi grapples with uncertainty. Who is the real Leman Ypi? What made her move to Tirana as a young woman and meet a socialist who sympathized with the Popular Front while his father led a collaborationist government? And, above all, why was she smiling in the winter of 1941? By turns epic and intimate, profound and gripping, Indignity shows what it is like to make choices against the tide of history--and reveals the fragility of truth, collective and personal. Through secret police reports of communist spies, court depositions, and Ypi's memories of her grandmother, we move between present and past, archive and imagination. With what moral authority do we judge the acts of previous generations? And what do we really know about the people closest to us?"--
  target audience: adult
  note: Lea Ypi.
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  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ypi, Leman
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ypi, Lea
      name part: 1979-
    topic: Family
  subject:
    topic: Women
    geographic: Albania
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Greeks
    geographic: Albania
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Political persecution
    geographic: Albania
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Communism
    geographic: Albania
  subject:
    geographic: Albania
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Albania
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: Thessalonikē (Greece)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Femmes
    geographic: Albanie
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Grecs
    geographic: Albanie
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Répression politique
    geographic: Albanie
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    geographic: Albanie
    topic: Politique et gouvernement
    temporal: 20e siècle
  classification: DR977.25.Y76 Y65 2025
  classification: 949.65
  identifier: 9780374614096
  identifier: 0374614091
  identifier: 2025026840
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250806
    record change date: 20260112221639.1
    record identifier: in00005675103
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng