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.
ISBN: | 9781860469015 |
Publisher: | Random House |
Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
Published date: | 20 Sep 2001 |
DEWEY: | 869.342 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 343 |
Weight: | 248g |
Height: | 198mm |
Width: | 131mm |
Spine width: | 22mm |