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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 20/09/2001
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ISBN: 9781860469015
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Length: 352 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm
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Weight: 245g
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RRP: £9.99
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 her mother is 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.
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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 20/09/2001
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ISBN: 9781860469015
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Length: 352 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm
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Weight: 245g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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"A mighty novel, variously bawdy, elevated, angry and tender, combining erudition, comedy, heresy, surreal science fiction and countless good stories."
Sunday Independent
