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Baltasar & Blimunda
  • Published: 29 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9781860469015
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $30.00
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Baltasar & Blimunda

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20 Sept 2013
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29 Oct 2018
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An intense and surreal romance set against the politics of eighteenth-century Lisbon from Nobel Prize-winning author José 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 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.
  • Published: 29 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9781860469015
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $30.00
Categories:

About the author

José Saramago

JOSÉ DE SOUSA SARAMAGO, (November 1922 - June 2010), was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. More than two million copies of Saramago's books have been sold in Portugal alone and his work has been translated into 25 languages. He was a founding member of the National Front for the Defense of Culture in Lisbon in 1992, and co-founder with Orhan Pamuk, of the European Writers' Parliament (EWP).
portrait photo of José Saramago

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Praise for Baltasar & Blimunda

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