Balthasar and Blimunda

Informationen zum Autor José Saramago Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jose Saramago, José Saramago
• Assisted by: Giovanni Pontiero (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.09.2001
• EAN: 9781860469015
• ISBN: 978-1-86046-901-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Portugiesische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Portugal, Historical romance, FICTION / Magical Realism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Magical Realism, C 1700 To C 1800