The Doll: A Portrait of My Mother

Counterpoint is thrilled to follow the critically acclaimed translations The Traitor’s Niche and A Girl in Exile with The Doll, the first autobiographical novel from Albania's best-known novelist and poet, Ismail Kadare

Often touted as a potential recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Kadare won the inaugural International Man Booker prize in 2005

The Doll is the intimate story based on Kadare’s relationship with his mother, a fragile woman trapped by the conventions of life as a woman in Albania in the first half of the twentieth century, as well as a fascinating window into the eastern European country and Kadare’s own growth as a writer

For fans of Kadare and international literature in translation, The Doll is also perfect for fans of novelists’ memoirs like Dani Shapiro’s Inheritance, and even Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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