num_pages: 349
description: From Nobel Prizewinning author Jos Saramago a magnificent mesmerizing parable of lossA 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 chargesamong them a boy with no mother a girl with dark glasses a dog of tearsthrough 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.
language: English
title: Blindness
publisher: Mariner Books