

About this book
A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read the textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city. Trying to step the epidemic, the authorities her the afflicted into a mental asylum where the wards are terrorised by blind thugs. And when fire destroys the asylum, the inmates burst forth and the last links with a supposedly civilised society are snapped.
No food, no water, no government, no order. This is not anarchy, this is blindness.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Published
- 2004
- Pages
- 661
- ISBN
- 9780547554884
- Language
- en
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