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Book Review: The Doll by Ismail Kadare

March 4, 2021 Book Review TCR Daily The Coachella Review

By Linda Romano Many people may  not be familiar with Albania, a small country bordering Greece on the western part of the Balkan Peninsula, or of Ismail Kadare, a renowned Albanian poet and novelist. In Kadare’s autobiographical novel, The Doll, this lack of familiarity does not prevent us from identifying with the common question of how our childhood, and especially…

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