Small Memories

<p>Born in Portugal in 1922 in the tiny village of Azinhaga, José Saramago was only eighteen months old when he moved with his father and mother to live in a series of cramped lodgings in a working-class neighbourhood of Lisbon. Nevertheless, he would return to the village throughout his childhood and adolescence, its river landscape and olive groves seeping deep into his memory.<br><br>Shifting back and forth between Azinhaga and Lisbon, this touching book is a mosaic of memories, a gathering together of the fragmented recollections that make up the idea of one''s youth. Written with Saramago''s characteristic wit and honesty, <i>Small Memories</i> traces the formation of an artist fascinated by words and stories from an early age and who emerged, against all the odds, as one of the world''s most respected writers.<br><br>By the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.</p>