From the winner of the first ever Man Booker International Prize: 'a novelist of dazzling mastery' (Independent)At the centre of young Ismail's world is the unknowable figure of his mother.
Man Booker International winner Kadare's story of home, family, freedom and aspiration. The Doll struggles to understand her son's rejection of tradition. John Hodgson captures Kadare's elliptical and stark prose.