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Small Memories

Small Memories

by JoseSaramago (Author), Margaret Jull Costa (Translator), Margaret Jull Costa Costa (Translator), Margaret Jull Costa (Translator), Margaret Jull Costa (Translator), José Saramago (Author)

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    Paperback 2010

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Synopsis

Born in Portugal in 1922 in the tiny village of Azinhaga, Jose Saramago was only eighteen months old when he moved with his father and mother to live in a series of cramped lodgings in a working-class neighbourhood of Lisbon. Nevertheless, he would return to the village throughout his childhood and adolescence, its river landscape and olive groves seeping deep into his memory. Shifting back and forth between Azinhaga and Lisbon, this touching book is a mosaic of memories, a gathering together of the fragmented recollections that make up the idea of one's youth. Written with Saramago's characteristic wit and honesty, Small Memories traces the formation of an artist fascinated by words and stories from an early age and who emerged, against all the odds, as one of the world's most respected writers. By the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 208
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07 Oct 2010
ISBN 10: 0099520486
ISBN 13: 9780099520481
Book Overview: A delightful insight into the formation of an artist who would become one of the world's most respected writers.

Media Reviews
The great thing about this memoir of boyhood is how unportentous it is for the most part -- Michael Kerrigan * Scotsman *
The lasting impression left by the self-portrait is of an abiding loneliness, nostalgia, and loss, leavened by humour and an unfeigned humility * Times Literary Supplement *
A moving account of his childhood and adolescence...Small Memories will delight -- Raymond Carr * The Spectator *
The humiliations and joys of childhood, magnified by time, are delicately revisited -- Angel Gurria-Quintana * Financial Times *
A real insight into the making of a great writer * Independent *
Author Bio
Jose Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010.