Paperbacks

ea Ypi’s memoir, (Penguin, 336pp, £9.99) is about growing up during Albania’s transition from totalitarian communism to liberal capitalism. Albania, wrote Max Strasser in the , ‘followed a uniquely strange and often bloody path through the. ‘It is a remarkable story, stunningly told, ’ agreed Emma Duncan in the . ‘Having lived in a country that was turned upside down overnight, she understands how easily institutions can collapse. “When you see a system change once, it’s not that difficult to believe that it can change again.” The citizens of western democracies would do well to remember that, ’ said Duncan.