Small Memories

José Saramago · 2006 CE · Narrative Non-fiction · Portuguese · Contemporary

Short recollections of a poor childhood in the village of Azinhaga and then in Lisbon in the 1920s and 1930s, among grandparents, neighbours and animals. The writer fixes the small events that formed him. His only memoir, published after his Nobel Prize.

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