Baltasar and Blimunda Saramago JosePaperback
Baltasar and Blimunda Saramago JosePaperback From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a "brilliant...enchanting novel" (New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and…
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Baltasar and Blimunda Saramago JosePaperback
From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a "brilliant...enchanting novel" (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. This poetic tale, graced with exquisite historical details and full of magic and adventure, is a tapestry of human folly and human In the midst of the terrors of the Inquisition and the plague, a seemingly mismatched couple discover the wonders of love.