num_pages: 293
description: A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of man's worst appetites and weaknesses-and man's ultimately exhilarating spirit. The stunningly powerful novel of man's will to survive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature
language: English
title: Blindness
titlecomplete: Blindness
characters: The boy with the squint, The old man with the black eye patch, The first blind man, The doctor (Blindness), The doctor's wife, The car thief, The girl with the dark glasses, The first blind man's wife
genres: Literature, Science Fiction, Classics, Portugal, Novels, Nobel Prize, Portuguese Literature, Fiction, Horror, Dystopia
ratings_count: 276314
places: Portugal
series: Blindness
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Premio San Clemente Rosalía-Abanca
category: Lingua estranxeira, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Harcourt