Blindness

by Jose Saramago; Giovanni Pontiero

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

ISBN 9780786218349	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Thorndike Pr	Date 1999	Price $3.07	Good
ISBN 9781860462979	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Harvill Press	Date 1997	Price None Available
ISBN 9781860466854	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Harvill Pr	Date 1999	Price £2.49
ISBN 9780613212328	Binding/Format Prebinding	Publisher Bt Bound	Date 2000	Price None Available
ISBN 9781602834446	Binding/Format Compact Disc	Publisher Bbc Audiobooks Amer	Date 2008	Price $21.42	NEW
ISBN 9780151002511	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Harcourt	Date 1998	Price $1.87	Very Good
ISBN 9780156035583	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Mariner Books	Date 2008	Price $1.00	New
ISBN 9780156007757	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Mariner Books	Date 1999	Price $1.00	New

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."