Small Memories

Small Memories

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

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: 224
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 01 Aug 2019

ISBN 10: 1784871834
ISBN 13: 9781784871833
Book Overview: A delightful insight into the formation of an artist who would become one of the world's most respected writers.

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.