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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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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 *

Small Memories

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    A Paperback / softback by José Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 7 October 2010
      ISBN-13 9780099520481
      978-0099520481
      ISBN-10 0099520486
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      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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