Blindness
by Jose Saramago; Giovanni Pontiero
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9780786218349,
Hardcover,
Thorndike Pr,
1999
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9781860462979,
Hardcover,
Harvill Press,
1997
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9781860466854,
Paperback,
Harvill Pr,
1999
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9780613212328,
Prebinding,
Bt Bound,
2000
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9781602834446,
Compact Disc,
Bbc Audiobooks Amer,
2008
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9780151002511,
Hardcover,
Harcourt,
1998
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9780156035583,
Paperback,
Mariner Books,
2008
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9780156007757,
Paperback,
Mariner Books,
1999
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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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