Indignity

*Longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction*Named a Book of the Year by Financial Times, Sunday Times, Prospect, TLS, Washington Post, NPR'Stunningly multilayered... explores what happens when philosophies meet history, when decisions have to be made at the point of a gun' ProspectFrom the acclaimed author of Free comes an imaginative investigation into historical injustice, dignity and truth -- told through the story of a family from the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the dawn of Communism in the Balkans‘There is something about the human spirit, she would say, that withstands all attempts at offence, injury or humiliation … we call it dignity’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 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: gl