Author says memoir of communist Albania met with ‘vicious’ abuse

Lea Ypi says vocal minority of Albanians have sent torrent of online insults criticising her bestseller, Free

A memoir about growing up before and after the fall of communism in Albania has won rave reviews in the west but has prompted vicious" abuse from a vocal minority of Albanians, its author says.

Free by Lea Ypi, a Marxist Albanian professor of political theory at the London School of Economics, might seem an unlikely bestseller.