Baltasar and Blimunda

José Saramago

£9.99

Paperback

Fiction > Fiction in translation

ISBN: 9781860469015

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When King and Church exercise absolute power what happens to the dreams of ordinary people?

In early eighteenth century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost a 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 condemned and burned at the stake, the two are bound body and soul by a love of unassailable strength.

A third party shares their supper that evening: Pardere Bartolemeu Lourenco, whose fantasy is to invent a flying machine.

As the inquisition rages and royalty and religion clash, they pursue his impossible, not to mention heretical, dream of flight.


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Weight 0.4 kg
Dimensions 20 × 13 × 5 cm