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Baltasar and Blimunda

Baltasar and Blimunda

Saramago, José

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General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.99

ISBN10: 0156005204
ISBN13: 9780156005203
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Oct 16 1998
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.37 Depth: 7.97
Language: English
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.

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