The doll : a portrait of my mother

ISBN: 9781640094222 (trade paperback)
Physical Description: print 175 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: First Counterpoint paperback edition.
Publisher: Berkley, CA : Counterpoint, 2020.

Kadare, Ismail (author.). Hodgson, John, 1951- (translator.). Kadare, Ismail translation of: Kukulla. English. (Added Author).

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-- ho 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.