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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Sami Kent

Indignity: A Life Reimagined by Lea Ypi review – love, war and betrayal

Lea Ypi’s grandparents
The picture of Lea Ypi’s grandparents that kickstarted the author’s quest. Photograph: PR

It starts with a photo. A black-and-white image of a couple relaxing on a pair of sun loungers in front of a luxury ski hotel: him, squinting against the sun; her, smiling at the camera, wrapped in a white fur coat. It is their honeymoon in Cortina, up in the Italian Alps.

The year is 1941, and the woman is Lea Ypi’s grandmother. Ypi saw the picture after it had been posted online by a stranger, gone viral across Albania, and attracted a stream of abuse. “Morally degenerate” was one comment. “Fascist collaborator” another.

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