Dear il libro friends,
As you already know this year our Leitmotiv is
WOMEN IN PROGRESS?
If you wish to participate to the next discussion, just send us an email to confirm. You will receive the link to the ZOOM meeting on the morning of the event.
The books we will discuss will be
Literary Circle
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
These Impossible Things by Salma El-Wardany
Free by Lea Ypi
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Free
Freeby Lea Ypi
7th June 2023 at 7:00 pm
ONLINE with il libro
One wet afternoon in December 1990, little Lea Ypi ran across Tirana to the garden of the Palace of Culture. Making sure no one could see her, she pressed her warm cheek to the cold thigh of a statue and tried to make her arms encircle its knees. And then she looked up to savour the figure’s friendly moustache, only to suppress a scream. Hooligan demonstrators calling for freedom and democracy had decapitated one of her favourite uncles.
With acute insight and wit, Lea Ypi traces the limits of progress and the burden of the past, illuminating the spaces between ideals and reality, and the hopes and fears of people pulled up by the sweep of history.
If you wish to participate, please let us know per email. Thank you!
