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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
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"A mighty novel, variously bawdy, elevated, angry and tender, combining erudition, comedy, heresy, surreal science fiction and countless good stories." (Robert Farren Sunday Independent)
"Original and brilliant...Lovers of Marquez and magical realism will be enchanted by the wonders of this novel, for the colour and vivacity of Saramago's imagination inspires and entertains." (Kate Figes Sunday Times)
"Jose Saramago affirms the simple truths as only a writer of rare stature can." (Christopher Wordsworth Guardian)
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"Original and brilliant...Lovers of Marquez and magical realism will be enchanted by the wonders of this novel, for the colour and vivacity of Saramago's imagination inspires and entertains." (Kate Figes Sunday Times)
"Jose Saramago affirms the simple truths as only a writer of rare stature can." (Christopher Wordsworth Guardian)
An intense and surreal romance set against the politics of eighteenth-century Lisbon from Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago
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- PublisherHarcourt
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0151105553
- ISBN 13 9780151105557
- BindingHardcover
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