Saramago Jose - Baltasar And Blimunda - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: From Jos 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.
Title: Baltasar And Blimunda
Author(s): Saramago Jose
Publisher: Cengage Learning Emea
Barcode: 9780156005203
Pages: 343 Pages
Publication Date: 10/16/1998
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction