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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,... Read Full Overview

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. National bestseller. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero... Read Full Overview

Con motivo del 50 aniversario de Alfaguara, este t?tulo ha sido elegido como uno de los 50 imprescindibles de la historia de la editorial.En Memorial del convento Jos? Saramago realiza una incursi?n en la narrativa hist?rica. El volumen recorre un periodo de aproximadamente... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview