Blindness

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From Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of loss A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and assaulting women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides her charges--among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears--through the barren streets, and their procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. As Blindnessreclaims the age-old story of a plague, it evokes the vivid and trembling horrors of the twentieth century, leaving readers with a powerful vision of the human spirit that's bound both by weakness and exhilarating strength.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780156007757
ISBN10 0156007754
Series/Work OL27420W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Mariner Books
Pages 326
Language EN-US
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At February 14, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

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