Blindness
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Translation of: Ensaio sobre a cegueira
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780099573586
Copyright date: 1995
First sentence: The amber light came on.
Description: 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 step the epidemic, the authorities her 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. 

No food, no water, no government, no order. This is not anarchy, this is blindness.