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The Doll

From the winner of the first ever Man Booker International Prize: “a novelist of dazzling mastery” IndependentAt 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.

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