Baltasar and Blimunda
By: José Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published: 1987
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng; por
Number of 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.
Notes: Translation of: Memorial do convento.