Baltasar & Blimunda
$31.78
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2018
Summary
An intense and surreal romance set against the politics of eighteenth-century Lisbon from Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago.
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781860469015 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1860469019 |
| Author: | José Saramago |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Harvill Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Panther S. |
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A mighty novel, variously bawdy, elevated, angry and tender, combining erudition, comedy, heresy, surreal science fiction and countless good stories.
A mighty novel, variously bawdy, elevated, angry and tender, combining erudition, comedy, heresy, surreal science fiction and countless good stories. – Robert Farren * Sunday Independent *Original and brilliant…Lovers of Marquez and magical realism will be enchanted by the wonders of this novel, for the colour and vivacity of Saramago’s imagination inspires and entertains. – Kate Figes * Sunday Times *Jose Saramago affirms the simple truths as only a writer of rare stature can. – Christopher Wordsworth * Guardian *
About The Author
José Saramago
Jose 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.
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