Baltasar and Blimunda

From José Saramago, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Baltasar and Blimunda is a "brilliant...enchanting novel" (The New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition. Portugal, 1711: an amorous friar is pursued naked through the rubble-strewn streets of Lisbon; an enthusiastic procession of flagellants roars with pleasure over the damnation of adultery; a royal prince uses hapless sailors for target practice; and women dressed in colorful finery watch as lapsed converts and sorcerers are put to death by flames. In the midst of the terrors of the Inquisition and the plague, a seemingly mismatched couple discover the wonders of love. This poetic tale, graced with exquisite historical details and full of magic and adventure, is a tapestry of human folly and human will.

Author: José Saramago
Publisher: Harpervia
Published: 10/16/1998
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 7.97h x 5.37w x 0.87d
ISBN13: 9780156005203
ISBN10: 0156005204
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Magical Realism