{"id":69947,"date":"2026-06-16T16:29:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=69947"},"modified":"2026-06-16T16:29:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:29:31","slug":"safar-book-group-free-a-child-and-a-country-at-the-end-of-history","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/safar-book-group-free-a-child-and-a-country-at-the-end-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Safar Book Group: Free \u2013 A Child and a Country at the End of History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lea Ypi&#8217;s colourful, hectic coming-of-age story through the end Communism in the Balkans, published in 1922, has won several awards, made the shortlist for many more, and features on several &#8216;Best Book of the Year&#8217; lists. The shock felt by the\u00a0Young Pioneer and Stalin enthusiast as the Berlin Wall fell and her country, Albania, began a messy transition to join the \u201cfree markets\u201d of the Western world provides a rich if somewhat dystopian brew. Ypi is a classy writer, and through the gripping narrative she&#8217;s able to prompt us to ask questions the relation between the personal and the political, and more deeply about the meaning of freedom &#8230; An interesting and potentially productive choice for the monthly book club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Lea Ypi&#8217;s colourful, hectic coming-of-age story through the end Communism in the Balkans, published in 1922, has won several awards, made the shortlist for many more, and features on several &#8216;Best Book of the Year&#8217; lists. The shock felt by <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/safar-book-group-free-a-child-and-a-country-at-the-end-of-history\/\" title=\"Safar Book Group: Free \u2013 A Child and a Country at the End of History\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69948,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[233],"class_list":["post-69947","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","tribe_events_cat-book-club","cat_book-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/69947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/69947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69947"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=69947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}