Baltasar and Blimunda
Author: José Saramago
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.,,,,When King and Church exercise absolute power what happens to the dreams of ordinary people? In early eighteenth century Lisbon….Read More
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