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Winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize, Albanian novelist/poet Kadare opens this autofiction with a description of his mother as a paper doll, and throughout the novel, this gentle, remote woman is called the Doll. But as Kadare points out, from her arrival at the ominous Kadare house and household to marry his father, he must often imagine what she saw and felt, and he...Log In or Sign Up to Read More