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The doll : a portrait of my mother / Ismail Kadare ; translated from the Albanian by John Hodgson.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781640094222 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 175 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Counterpoint paperback edition.
- Publisher: Berkley, CA : Counterpoint, 2020.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | First published by Onufri in Albania in 2015 with the title Kukulla. |
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| Subject: | Mothers and sons > Fiction. Families > Fiction. Children > Fiction. Reminiscing > Fiction. Conflict of generations > Fiction. Self-realization in women > Fiction. Albania > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Autobiographical fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stroud Branch | FIC Kadar | 31681010217701 | FICTION | Available | - |
