The Doll: A Portrait of My Mother
In this autobiographical novel, Albania's most renowned novelist and poet Ismail Kadare explores his relationship with his mother in a delicately wrought tale of home, family, creative aspirations, and personal and political freedom.Houses like ours seemed constructed with the specific purpose of preserving coldness and misunderstanding for as long as possible. In his father's great stone house with hidden rooms and even a dungeon, Ismail grows up with his mother at the center of his universe. Fragile as a paper doll, she finds herself at odds with her tight-lipped and wise mother-in-law who, as is the custom for women of a certain age, will…
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Weitere Autoren: Hodgson, John (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-64009-422-2
- EAN: 9781640094222
- Produktnummer: 33213531
- Verlag: Counterpoint Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Masse: H20.5 cm x B14.1 cm x D1.5 cm 201 g
- Gewicht: 201
Über den Autor
ISMAIL KADARE is Albania's best-known novelist and poet. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. He was awarded the inaugural Man Booker International Prize in 2005, the Jerusalem Prize in 2015, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2020. JOHN HODGSON studied at Cambridge and Newcastle and has taught at the universities of Prishtina and Tirana. This is the sixth book by Ismail Kadare that he has translated.
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