Blindness

Type

Book

Authors

Jose Saramago

ISBN 10

0156007754

ISBN 13

9780156007757

Tags

Movie, Video Game Adaptations, Contemporary, Literary

Abstract

A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of man's worst appetites and weaknesses-and man's ultimately exhilarating spirit. The stunningly powerful novel of man's will to survive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Biblio Notes

Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: José Saramago; Giovanni Pontiero
ISBN: 0156007754 9780156007757
OCLC Number: 1044081199
Notes: Originally published in English in Great Britain in 1997 by The Harvill Press.
Description: 327 pages

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