Baltasar and Blimunda

First UK edition. 8vo. 336pp. Publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket illustration by Rosemary Woods (priced £11.95 net to front flap). Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. Originally published in 1982 as Memorial do Convento by Editorial Caminho, Lisbon.

Light tanning to page edges, former ownership inscription inked to flyleaf, o/w Fine.

Author's first novel to be translated into English. Amidst the terrors of the Inquisition and the plague in 18th-century Portugal, a seemingly mismatched couple discovers the wonders of love. Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. "An enchanting novel [with a] love story which soars over the rest of the action like a flute above a heavy orchestra." –The New York Times Book Review