Baltasar and Blimunda
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.
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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780156005203 (0156005204)
ASIN: 156005204
Publish date: November 5th 1998
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 343
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Magical Realism,
Nobel Prize,
Portugal,
Portuguese Literature
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