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Product details
- ISBN 9781860469015
- Weight: 250g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 20 Sep 2001
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar returns from war missing a hand and searching for purpose.
In Lisbon, Baltasar meets Blimunda, a young woman gifted with visionary sight. 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.
Together with the eccentric priest Bartolomeu Lourenço, they attempt to build a flying machine powered by human will. But as the trio pursue Bartolomeu’s impossible – not to mention heretical – dream of flight, the Inquisition watches closely.
José Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010.
