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Author:

Kadare, Ismail, author.

Title:

The doll : a portrait of my mother / Ismail Kadare ; translated from the Albanian by John Hodgson.

Edition:

First Counterpoint paperback edition.

Publisher:

Counterpoint,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

175 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Mothers and sons--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Children--Fiction.
Reminiscing--Fiction.
Conflict of generations--Fiction.
Self-realization in women--Fiction.
Children.
Conflict of generations.
Families.
Mothers and sons.
Reminiscing.
Self-realization in women.
Albania--Fiction.
Albania.
Autobiographical fiction.
Autobiographical fiction.
Fiction.

Other Authors:

Hodgson, John, 1951- translator.

Other Titles:

Kukulla. English

Notes:

First published by Onufri in Albania in 2015 with the title Kukulla.

Summary:

At the centre of young Ismail's world is the unknowable figure of his mother. Naive and fragile as a paper doll, she is an unlikely presence in her husband's great stone house, with its hidden rooms and infamous dungeon, and is constantly at odds with her wise and thin-lipped mother-in-law. She is not without her own enigmas, and she fears that her intellectual son-- who uses words she doesn't understand, publishes radical poetry, falls in love freely and seems to be renouncing everything she embodies of the old world-- will have to exchange her for a superior mother when he becomes a famous writer.

ISBN:

9781640094222
1640094229

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1139149277

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)