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Small Memories
Small Memories | Jos Saramago
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Jos Saramago was eighteen months old when he moved from the village of Azinhaga with his father and mother to live in Lisbon. But he would return to the village throughout his childhood and adolescence to stay with his maternal grandparents, illiterate peasants in the eyes of the outside world, but a fount of knowledge, affection, and authority to young Jos. Shifting 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 authors boyhood: the tragic death of his older brother at the age of four; his mother pawning the familys 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 Saramagos 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 Molire. Written with Saramagos characteristic wit and honesty, Small Memories traces the formation of an artist fascinated by words and stories from an early age and who emerged, against all odds, as one of the worlds most respected writers.
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Small Memories | Jos Saramago
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Thank you to @Hooked_on_books for recommending Jose Saramago for my #ReadingEurope2020 challenge #Portugal. I “spent” 2 Hoopla credits for this one! The Lizard at only 20 pages (and 7 of them being illustrations) seemed like a cheat so I downloaded Small Memories as well. Let me say, this author has a real liking for flowery run-on sentences...I enjoyed the first 70 pages but eventually I gave up on this book too. Im calling quits on Portugal😜

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Librarybelle Haha! I bought this one on Book Outlet for Portugal...I hope I have good success in it and don‘t need to bail (haven‘t started it yet)...
[tagged book]The Last Day: Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
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jenniferw88 I'd say The Lizard counts! 4y
Cinfhen Thanks @jenniferw88 I TOTALLY AGREE with you 😘😘Two Hoopla credits shows a real dedication 4y
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Cinfhen I‘ll be curious to hear about your book @Librarybelle although between all my half read books I feel like I got a good picture of Portugal already 😉 (edited) 4y
BarbaraBB Lol, real dedication indeed! Well done ❤️ 4y
Redwritinghood Love Saramago. One of my favorite authors. 4y
Cinfhen I‘m claiming Portugal @BarbaraBB ✅I really want to read Blindness but maybe at a later date @Redwritinghood 😁 4y
BookishTrish @Redwritinghood me too! If you want to give Portugal another shot maybe try
[tagged book]The Golden City
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BookishTrish Or
[tagged book]The Illustrious House of Ramires
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BarbaraBB Blindness is fantastic! Maybe not right now though 😉 4y
Cinfhen Thanks for the book recommendations @BookishTrish ♥️ 4y
Hooked_on_books You can always count The Lizard! 😆🦎 Oh well, you tried. 4y
Cinfhen Oh, I‘m counting The Lizard 🦎 @Hooked_on_books 😂😂😜 4y
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Small Memories | Jos Saramago
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Small memories because they are of his childhood and adolescence, and also because they are not momentous, other than in a personal way. However, Saramago uses these small memories to reflect (however briefly) upon the nature of memory and subjective reality, and of how seemingly trivial incidents in early life have significant repercussions for the adults we become. 👇🏻👇🏻

Bookwomble The short reflections on sexual awakening, of his drunken aunt's onanism, and of his sexualized torture by a group of older boys (uncomfortably reminicent of the tragic case of Jamie Bulger) make this for the slightly older reader, though I would stress that the details are not overly graphic nor at all lurid. Mostly, this is a wistful remembrance of childhood and of the inevitable passage of time. 6y
TrishB Great review 👍🏻 6y
Bookwomble @TrishB Thanks 😊 6y
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"I don't think there is a deeper silence in the world than the silence of water."

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Thank goodness! After two misfires, something I can settle down with 😊

DivineDiana 👏🏻📚👏🏻 6y
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How far wrong can I go with a book of childhood memoirs by a Nobel Prize for Literature winner? Fingers crossed that the third book's the charm! 🤞🏻

Weaponxgirl Good luck! I'm having a bad book mood too atm. Hoping this one kicked the trend for you 6y
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ItsBookOClock
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Small Memories | Jos Saramago
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In this work, "Pequenas Memórias", José Saramago brings us a piece of his young himself.
In spite of his characteristic and pleasurable prose, and due to an intentional rigor non chronological, I missed a leading thread in the author's memories. #josesaramago #portugueseauthors #nobelprize #bookreview #smallnemories

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ItsBookOClock
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Small Memories | Jos Saramago

I'm almost finishing this book. What book do you recommend to read next?

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