''Free: Coming of Age at the End of History'' is a book by
Lea Ypi
Lea Ypi (born 8 September 1979) is an Albanian author and academic. She is a professor of political theory at the London School of Economics.
She is a member of the jury of the Deutscher Memorial Prize. Personal life
Ypi was born in Tirana, the e ...
.
''Free'' was published on 28 October 2021 by
Allen Lane
Sir Allen Lane (born Allen Lane Williams; 21 September 1902 – 7 July 1970) was a British publisher who together with his brothers Richard and John Lane founded Penguin Books in 1935, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fictio ...
.
In January 2022,
BBC Radio 4
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serialised the book in their ''
Book of the Week'' series.
Reception
''Free'' was shortlisted for the 2021
Baillie Gifford Prize and the 2021
Costa Book Award
The Costa Book Awards were a set of annual literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in UK and Ireland. Originally named the Whitbread Book Awards from 1971 to 2005 after its first sponsor, the Whitbread company, then ...
for
biography
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.
10,000 copies were sold in the November 2021.
Ed O'Loughlin
Ed O'Loughlin is an Irish-Canadian author and journalist. His first novel, ''Not Untrue and Not Unkind'', dealt with foreign journalists reporting on African conflicts. It was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2009 and shortlisted for the ...
praised Ypi's use of
subtext in the work.
References
External links
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2021 non-fiction books
Allen Lane (imprint) books
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