Title: Baltasar and Blimunda /
Authors: Saramago, José.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
Year: 1987
Subjects: Portugal History Fiction.
Abstract: 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.