Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago

Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago

In this novel set in early 18th-century Portugal, the stately and wholly routine minuet of the Portuguese court is rudely interrupted by the arrival of "New Ideas".

As the Inquisition rages, an extraordinary trinity struggle to realise a creation that will fly in the face of the monstrous vanity of Church and StateIn early 18th-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 his mother is 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: Padre Bartolomeu Lourenco, whose fantasy is to invent a flying machine. As the Crown and the Church clash, they pursue his impossible, not to mention heretical, dream of flight.

Born in Portugal in 1922, Jose Saramago was one of the most important writers of his generation. He was in his fifties when he came to prominence as a novelist with the publication of Baltasar & Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, which included plays, poetry, short stories, non-fiction and over a dozen novels, including Blindness which was made into an acclaimed film. He has been translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died on 18 June 2010, shortly after the Portuguese publication of Cain.

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ISBN 13	9781860462641
ISBN 10	1860462642
Title	Baltasar and Blimunda
Author	Jose Saramago
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	1998-09-17
Number of pages	320
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