JOS� SARAMAGO (1922-2010) was the author of many novels, among them Blindness, All the Names, Baltasar and Blimunda, and The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
"The opening pages of this posthumously published memoir of early
childhood by Saramago are rapturously enthralling..."
--Kirkus Reviews "The memories are not only small and immediate,
vignettes with a sense of being interjected rather than relayed,
but told with the immediacy of a child's gaze, so very different
from an adult's reflection...[An] homage to Saramago's family and
homeland, but also...the endlessly renewable life of the mind."
--The Independent (UK) "A great memoir...a tapestry of
reminiscences stitched together haphazardly but with his usual
irresistible charm... These are fragments of emotion and sensuous
recollection that together poignantly conjure a distant
childhood."
--Metro.co.uk "A moving account of his childhood and
adolescence"
--The Spectator (UK) "I'll admit to having wept at the close of two
of Saramago's novels, but his tale here is a gentler, more elegiac
one. Small memories, perhaps, but a small masterpiece, too."
--The Business Post (Ireland) "The Master of Lisbon shows the
grandeur of small things recollected in this refulgent memoir."
--Mail & Guardian (South Africa) "In Small Memories, Saramago
examines the richness of his early experiences, taking pleasure in
writing his past as the work of the man that he finally
became."
--World Literature Today --
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