Small memories
A personal account by the late author traces his youth in Lisbon with his parents, marked by frequent visits to his wise grandparents in the village of Azinhaga, his older brother's tragic early death, and his initial encounters with literature.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Portuguese |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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| Summary: | A personal account by the late author traces his youth in Lisbon with his parents, marked by frequent visits to his wise grandparents in the village of Azinhaga, his older brother's tragic early death, and his initial encounters with literature. |
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| Item Description: | "First published as As pequenas memórias in 2006 by Editorial Caminho, SA, Lisbon; First published in Great Britain in 2009 by Harvill Secker, Random House"--T.p. verso. |
| Physical Description: | 139 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780151015085 0151015082 |
| Author Notes: | He is indisputably Portugal's best-known literary figure and his books have been translated into more than 25 languages. Although he wrote his first novel in 1947, he waited some 35 years before winning critical acclaim for work such as the Memorial do Convento. His works include The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, The Stone Raft, Baltasar and Blimunda, The History of the Siege of Lisbon, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, and Blindness. At age 75, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998 for his work in which "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony, continually enables us to apprehend an elusory reality." He died from a prolonged illness that caused multiple organ failure on June 18, 2010 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) |
