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The Doll: A Portrait of My Mother

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'The Doll: A Portrait of My Mother' is an autobiographical novel sketching Albanian author Ismail Kadare's relationship with his mother. It dwells upon the family's life in Gjirokastr and later in Tirana, "full of compelling details of life in a changing Albania", as well as on the author's own time as a student at the Gorky Institute in Moscow. While the portrait of his mother remains insubstantial, there are reflections upon the author's own youthful literary ambitions, and the nature of autocracy.

The work was first published in Albanian in 2015, and was translated into English by John Hodgson for publication by Harvill Secker in 2020.

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Category:2015 novels

Category:Novels by Ismail Kadare

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Category:Novels set in Moscow

Category:Novels set in the Stalin era


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