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Small Memories: A Memoir

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The Nobel Prize-winning author of Blindness recalls the days of his youth in Lisbon and the Portuguese countryside in this charming memoir.

José Saramago was eighteen months old when he moved from the village of Azinhaga with his father and mother to live in Lisbon. But he would return to the village throughout his childhood and adolescence to stay with his maternal grandparents, illiterate peasants in the eyes of the outside world, but a fount of knowledge, affection, and authority to young José. Small Memories traces the formation of a man who emerged, against all odds, as one of the world's most respected writers.

Shifting between childhood and his teenage years, between Azinhaga and Lisbon, this mosaic of memories looks back into the author's boyhood: the tragic death of his older brother at the age of four; his mother pawning the family's blankets every spring and buying them back in time for winter; his grandparents bringing the weaker piglets into their bed on cold nights; and Saramago's early encounters with literature, from teaching himself to read to poring over a Portuguese-French conversation guide, not realizing that he was in fact reading a play by Molière.

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  • Publication Date: May 11, 2011
  • Text-to-Speech: Disabled
  • Lending: Disabled
  • Print Length: 181 Pages
  • File Size: 19 KB

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