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Blindness

by Jose Saramago; Giovanni Pontiero


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In this fable by Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago, the population of an entire town is suddenly stricken, one by one, with blindness. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.

Editions of Blindness

9780786218349
ISBN

Binding/Format

Hardcover
Publisher

Thorndike Pr
Date

1999
Price

$3.07
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9781860462979
ISBN

Binding/Format

Hardcover
Publisher

Harvill Press
Date

1997
Price

None Available
 
9781860466854
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Binding/Format

Paperback
Publisher

Harvill Pr
Date

1999
Price

£2.49
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9780613212328
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Binding/Format

Prebinding
Publisher

Bt Bound
Date

2000
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None Available
 
9781602834446
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Binding/Format

Compact Disc
Publisher

Bbc Audiobooks Amer
Date

2008
Price

$21.42
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9780151002511
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Binding/Format

Hardcover
Publisher

Harcourt
Date

1998
Price

$1.87
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Very Good
9780156035583
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Binding/Format

Paperback
Publisher

Mariner Books
Date

2008
Price

$1.00
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9780156007757
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Binding/Format

Paperback
Publisher

Mariner Books
Date

1999
Price

$1.00
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Publisher Notes

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.

Media Reviews

"More frightening than Stephen King, as unrelenting as a bad dream, José Saramago's 'Blindness' politely rubs our faces in apocalypse....A metaphor like 'white blindness' might easily seem forced or labored, but Saramago makes it live by focusing on the stubbornly literal; his account of a clump of newly blind people trying to find their way to food or to the bathroom provides some surprisingly gripping passages."

First Line

The amber light came on. Two of the cars ahead accelerated before the red light appeared. At the pedestrian crossing, the sign of a green man lit up.

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