- New York Times reviewed, Fiction, family life, general, Fiction, biographical, Mothers and sons
"At the centre of young Ismail's world is the unknowable figure of his mother. Naive and fragile 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.
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Contemplative, prestige, grave and earnest.
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Ismail Kadare, John Hodgson
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 187
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, Counterpoint Press, Counterpoint
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781640094222
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