{"product_id":"the-doll","title":"The Doll","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the winner of the first ever Man Booker International Prize- 'a novelist of dazzling mastery' (\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. But despite her lightness and unchanging youthful nature, she is not without her own enigmas.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Most 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Dedicated to the memory of his mother and circling back to his childhood in Albania, \u003ci\u003eThe Doll\u003c\/i\u003e is Ismail Kadare's delicate and disarming tale of home and creative longing, of writerly aspiration, and of personal and political freedom.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ' A fascinating study of a difficult love' John Burnside\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Mesmerising' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/ismail-kadare-books\"\u003eIsmail Kadare\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Harvill Secker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781787300934\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Harvill Secker","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £1.33","offer_id":47917149814961,"sku":"SB-1787300935-C3","price":1.33,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1787300935.jpg?v=1789687870","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-doll","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}