Small Memories by José Saramago

Small Memories by José Saramago

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Born in Portugal in 1922 in the tiny village of Azinhaga, José 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.

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Small Memories by José Saramago

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.
The voice of Small Memories is so immediate, genial and full of simple affection for the boy he was, that reading it feels very much like sharing a fireside with a talkative uncle * Guardian *
A moving account of his childhood and adolescence..Small Memories will delight -- Raymond Carr * The Spectator *
A real insight into the making of a great writer * Independent *
It's impossible not to be charmed by this fluid, spontaneous-seeming memoir of boyhood from the late Portuguese Nobel Laureate, Jose Saramago [...] For all its delightful novelty, however, the childhood described here is also beguilingly universal: the superstitions and terrors, the mysteries and joys * Daily Mail *
A powerful and nostalgic memoir * The Times *
José 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.
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ISBN 13 9780099520481
ISBN 10 0099520486
Title Small Memories
Author José Saramago
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Year published 2010-10-07
Number of pages 208
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