Description
At seventy-eight, a celebrated writer looks back on the mother who shaped him long before he understood what shaping meant. Framed by her final illness and his recurring childhood image of her as a fragile doll, the novel traces how love, distance, and misunderstanding can echo through a life—especially when a family’s private world is shadowed by public power. Through a tender, autobiographical lens, he revisits his early longing for freedom and the ways political realities can distort even the most intimate relationships. Delicate and disarming, this is a meditation on memory and authorship, where the personal becomes a key to the political and the self.
Available Editions
paperback
Harvill Secker
Published Jan 16, 2020
160 pages
ISBN: 9781787300934
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Details
First Published
2020
Language
eng
Translation
From: alb
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Doll by Ismail Kadare.