{"product_id":"small-memories-isbn-9780547752631","title":"Small Memories","description":"“Small Memories is a . . . nourishing last gift from a great writer.”—\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShifting  back and forth between childhood and his teenage years, between  Azinhaga and Lisbon, this is a mosaic of memories, a simply told,  affecting look 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 beloved  grandparents bringing the weaker piglets into their bed on cold nights;  and Saramago’s early encounters with literature, from teaching himself  to read by deciphering articles in the daily newspaper, to poring over  an entertaining dialogue in a Portuguese-French conversation guide, not  realizing that he was in fact reading a play by Molière.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten with Saramago’s characteristic wit and honesty, \u003cem\u003eSmall Memories\u003c\/em\u003e  traces the formation of an artist fascinated by words and stories from  an early age who emerged, against all odds, as one of the world’s most  respected writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Like a nostalgic progenitor bestowing his  wealth of life experience upon a younger generation, Saramago digs deep  into his peasant roots to sketch a rough outline of the little boy who  would become one of the greatest Portuguese-language writers”—\u003cem\u003ePortland Oregonian\u003c\/em\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"The opening pages of this posthumously published memoir of early childhood by Saramago are rapturously enthralling...\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" \u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\" \u003cbr\u003e--Metro.co.uk \"A moving account of his childhood and adolescence\" \u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\" \u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Business Post \u003c\/i\u003e(Ireland) \"The Master of Lisbon shows the grandeur of small things recollected in this refulgent memoir.\" \u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eMail \u0026amp; Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e (South Africa) \"In \u003ci\u003eSmall Memories\u003c\/i\u003e, Saramago examines the richness of his early experiences, taking pleasure in writing his past as the work of the man that he finally became.\" \u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890161217765,"sku":"NP9780547752631","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780547752631.jpg?v=1730232659","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/small-memories-isbn-9780547752631","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}