“ Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. ” ― Rumi
Con un estilo sencillo y desnudo, Saramago describe los hechos, grandes y pequeños, que nunca, desde aquellos tiernos años, lograron desvanecerse en el tejido del recuerdo. De todos ellos, los más vívidos serán aquellos que acompañaron el despertar
