num_pages: 326
description: 
  No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order.
Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers. 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 stem the epidemic, the authorities herd 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.
  This is not anarchy, this is blindness.
‘Saramago repeatedly undertakes to unite the pressing demands of the present with an unfolding vision of the future. This is his most apocalyptic, and most optimistic, version of that project yet’ Independent
language: English
title: Blindness
titlecomplete: Blindness
characters: The doctor's wife, The car thief, The old man with the black eye patch, The doctor (Blindness), The first blind man's wife, The boy with the squint, The girl with the dark glasses, The first blind man
genres: Portugal, Nobel Prize, Dystopia, Novels, Science Fiction, Portuguese Literature, Literature, Horror, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 276255
places: Portugal
series: Blindness
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Premio San Clemente Rosalía-Abanca
category: Lingua estranxeira, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company