Small Memories

From : Financial Times


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José Saramago, the Portuguese novelist and Nobel laureate.


Is no stranger to autobiographical writing. He has already published five volumes of his diaries, covering the years 1993 to 1998. Small Memories, however, is his first memoir, spanning his birth in 1922 in the village of Azinhaga, to his family’s move to Lisbon and his first years of schooling.

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