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OverviewShifting back and forth between childhood and his teenage years, between Azinhaga and Lisbon, this is a mosaic of memories, a simply told, affecting look back 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 Moliere. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jose Saramago , Margaret Jull CostaPublisher: Mariner Books Imprint: Mariner Books Country of Publication: United States ISBN: 9780547752631ISBN 10: 0547752636 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 01 May 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon it's release. Table of ContentsReviewsThe opening pages of this posthumously published memoir of early childhood by Saramago are rapturously enthralling... <br>-- Kirkus Reviews <br> 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. <br>-- 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. <br>--Metro.co.uk A moving account of his childhood and adolescence <br>-- 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. <br>-- The Bu Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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