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Blindness

by José Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero, Margaret Jull Costa

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Blindness #1661 pages2004Houghton Mifflin HarcourtISBN 9780547554884

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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