Baltasar and Blimunda（ISBN=9780156005203）

　　From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a "brilliant...enchanting novel" (New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition. National bestseller. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.

　　Jose Saramago was born in Portugal in 1922 and has been a full time writer since 1979. His work embraces plays, poetry, short stories, non-fiction and several novels and has been translated into more than twenty languages. He has long been regarded as Portugal's most influential living writer for his novels, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, The History of the Siege of Lisbon, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and most recently, Blindness. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.