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Baltasar & Blimunda

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781860469015

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 245g

  • RRP: £9.99

Baltasar & Blimunda

In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where women are burned at the stake, the two are bound body and soul by love of an unassailable strength. A third party shares their supper that evening: Padre Bartolomeu Lourenco, whose fantasy is to invent a flying machine. As the Crown and the Church clash, they purse his impossible, not to mention heretical, dream of flight.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781860469015

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 245g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • A mighty novel, variously bawdy, elevated, angry and tender, combining erudition, comedy, heresy, surreal science fiction and countless good stories.

    Robert Farren, Sunday Independent

  • Original and brilliant...Lovers of Marquez and magical realism will be enchanted by the wonders of this novel, for the colour and vivacity of Saramago's imagination inspires and entertains.

    Kate Figes, Sunday Times

  • Jose Saramago affirms the simple truths as only a writer of rare stature can.

    Christopher Wordsworth, Guardian

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About the Author

José Saramago

José Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010.

José Saramago

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