BALTASAR AND BLIMUNDA (En papel)

Datos del libro

• Nº de páginas: 343 págs.
• Editorial: HARVILL PRESS
• Lengua: INGLÉS
• Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
• ISBN: 9781860469015
• Año edicón: 2001
• Plaza de edición: LONDON

Sinopsis

When King and Church exercise absolute power what happens to the dreams of ordinary people? In early eighteenth century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost a 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 her mother is condemned and burned at the stake, the two are bound body and soul by a love of unassailable strength. A third party shares their supper that evening: Pardere Bartolemeu Lourenco, whose fantasy is to invent a flying machine. As the inquisition rages and royalty and religion clash, they pursue his impossible, not to mention heretical, dream of flight.