My wife, being Albanian, has a keen interest in Albanian stories, most notably non-fiction. With Albania’s fascinating history, encompassing the Enver Hoxha communist years, the pyramid scheme collapse, and the year 1997, it really is a case of fact being stranger than fiction. This takes me to Lea Ypi, the granddaughter of a revolutionary politician at the beginning of the Hoxha era, and her story during the 1990s and beyond. She writes from the perspective of herself as a c

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