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02292aam a2200397Ii 4500 001 A7612DE2A55F11EAA027EF1497128E48 003 SILO 005 20200603010033 008 190420s2020 enk 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1787300935 020 $a 9781787300934 035 $a (OCoLC)1097672492 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d UKMGB $d NZAUC $d YDXIT $d OCLCF $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h alb 043 $a e-aa--- 050 4 $a PG9621 K3 K8513 2020 100 1 $a Kadare, Ismail $e author. 240 10 $a Kukulla. $l English 245 14 $a The doll : $b a portrait of my mother / Ismail Kadare. Translated from the Albanian by John Hodgson. 264 1 $a London : $b Harvill Secker, $c 2020. 300 $a 166 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a First published by Onufri in Albania in 2015 with the title Kukulla. 520 $a "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. But despite her lightness and unchanging youthful nature, she is not without her own enigmas. Most of all, 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. Dedicated to the memory of his mother and circling back to his childhood in Albania, The Doll is Ismail Kadare's delicate and disarming tale of home and creative longing, of writerly aspiration, and of personal and political freedom."--Publisher description. 650 0 $a Mothers and sons $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Children $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Reminiscing $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Conflict of generations $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Self-realization in women $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Albania $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Hodgson, John, $e translator. 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781473560888 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20201103014802.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A7612DE2A55F11EAA027EF1497128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search