num_pages: 540
description: A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" whose victims are confined to a vacant mental hospital, while a single eyewitness to the nightmare guides seven oddly assorted strangers through the barren urban landscape
language: English
title: Blindness
titlecomplete: Blindness
characters: The girl with the dark glasses, The boy with the squint, The doctor (Blindness), The old man with the black eye patch, The first blind man's wife, The first blind man, The doctor's wife, The car thief
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Horror, Literature, Classics, Novels, Portugal, Nobel Prize, Dystopia, Portuguese Literature
ratings_count: 276402
places: Portugal
series: Blindness
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Premio San Clemente Rosalía-Abanca
category: Lingua estranxeira, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Thorndike Pr