# Baltasar & Blimunda

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- Book: [Baltasar & Blimunda](https://www.bookquiver.com/jose-saramago/baltasar-blimunda) ([Baltasar & Blimunda.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jose-saramago/baltasar-blimunda.md))
- Authors: [José Saramago](https://www.bookquiver.com/jose-saramago)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4811-290-6
- Published: 2013-09-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.