num_pages: 336
description: In eighteenth-century Portugal, fifty thousand laborers carry stones on their backs across mountains to build the king's convent, a heretical priest devises a magic flying machine--the Passarola--and two lovers' dream of flight sets them apart
language: Portuguese
title: Baltasar and Blimunda
titlecomplete: Baltasar and Blimunda (English and Portuguese Edition)
characters: Baltasar, Blimunda
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Classics, Portugal, Historical, Nobel Prize, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, Portuguese Literature
ratings_count: 21800
places: Lisbon, Portugal
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Prémio Literário Município de Lisboa
category: Prosa de Ficção, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Prémio PEN Clube Português da Novelística
publisher: Harcourt