{"product_id":"the-dollbooks","title":"The Doll","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom the winner of the first ever Man Booker International Prize: 'a novelist of dazzling mastery' (\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e) about a mother as naïve and fragile as a paper doll.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt the centre of young Ismail’s world is the unknowable figure of his mother. Delicate 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMost 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDedicated to the memory of his mother and circling back to his childhood in Albania, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Doll\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is Ismail Kadare’s delicate and disarming tale of home and creative longing, of writerly aspiration, and of personal and political freedom.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'[A] fascinating study of a difficult love' John Burnside\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'Mesmerising' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Kadare, Ismail","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":44243653558496,"sku":"","price":8.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/53239402.jpg?v=1697119872","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/the-dollbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}