Original and brilliant (}Sunday Times{), novel set in early eighteenth century Lisbon, by the 1998 Nobel prize winner. Bawdy, angry, and tender, combining comedy, surreal science fiction and countless good stories }Sunday Independent{ 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.
