description: A driver waiting at a red light suddenly becomes blind. So does his wife and the doctor who examines them. They are the first cases of an "epidemic" of blindness. A terrifying allegory of the dark times that we are living as we aproach at the new millennium. Blurb in Una ceguera blanca se expande de manera fulminante. Internados en cuarentena o perdidos por la ciudad, los ciegos deben enfrentarse a lo más primitivo de la especie la voluntad de sobrevivir a cualquier precio.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: Ensayo sobre la ceguera
titlecomplete: Ensayo sobre la ceguera
characters: The doctor's wife, The first blind man, The girl with the dark glasses, The car thief, The boy with the squint, The old man with the black eye patch, The doctor (Blindness), The first blind man's wife
genres: Fiction, Classics, Portugal, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Portuguese Literature, Nobel Prize, Horror, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 276346
places: Portugal
series: Blindness
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Premio San Clemente Rosalía-Abanca
category: Lingua estranxeira, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Punto de Lectura, Buenos Aires.