Baltasar and Blimunda |
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| Author:
| Saramago, José |
| Series title: | Panther Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-86046-901-5 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2018 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House
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| Imprint: | Arrow |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $29.99 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionIn 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.