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Small Memories

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784871833

  • Length: 224  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 182g

  • RRP: £9.99

Small Memories

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

Born in 1922 in the tiny Portuguese village of Azinhaga, José Saramago was only a baby when his family moved to a series of cramped lodgings in a working-class neighbourhood of Lisbon. Nevertheless, he would return to the village throughout his early life, its river and olive groves seeping deep into his memory.

Shifting between Azinhaga and Lisbon, this touching book is a mosaic of memories. Written with characteristic wit and honesty, Small Memories traces the formation of an artist always fascinated by language and who emerged, against all odds, as one of the world's most respected writers.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784871833

  • Length: 224  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 182g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • 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

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About the Author

José Saramago

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.

José Saramago

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