A delightful insight into the formation of an artist who would become one of the world's most respected writers.
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.
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
*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*
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