Blindness
From Nobel Prize–winning author José 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...
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From Nobel Prize–winning author José 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 Blindness reclaims 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780156035583 (0156035588)
Publish date: September 2nd 2008
Publisher: A Harvest Book/Harcourt, Inc.
Pages no: 334
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
European Literature,
Book Club,
Contemporary,
Horror,
Dystopia,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic,
Portuguese Literature
Series: Blindness
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I really liked the book, especially the strange way in which it was written. I got lost in the dialog sometimes, which, to me, represented the feelings of blindness and disorientation very well.The beginning of the book was incredible at showing a society-wide panic that overtakes everybody, regardl...
I really liked the book, especially the strange way in which it was written. I got lost in the dialog sometimes, which, to me, represented the feelings of blindness and disorientation very well.The beginning of the book was incredible at showing a society-wide panic that overtakes everybody, regardl...
Imagine your world turning into a white milky sea? Imagine one minute you are seeing colors, the world so rich and bright and the next minute, everything you see is white and there is no reason behind this transformation. This blindness begins with one individual and soon becomes an epidemic spread...
The paragraphs in this thing are massive... Opening to a random page gave me a paragraph that was 13.5 PAGES long. As excited as I am about this book, I'm weary of it now.