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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONThe award-winning author of Free returns with an extraordinary investigation into historical injustice, personal and collective dignity, truth and imagination**When Lea Ypi discovers that a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Italian Alps in 1941 has been posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with deeply unsettling ... Read more

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