175 pages ;21 cm
First published by Onufri in Albania in 2015 with the title Kukulla.
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.
1.Mothers and sons--Fiction.2.Families--Fiction.3.Children--Fiction.4.Reminiscing--Fiction.5.Conflict of generations--Fiction.6.Self-realization in women--Fiction.Dynamic Details