TY - BOOK AU - Saramago,José AU - Pontiero,Giovanni TI - Blindness SN - 0151002517 PY - 2006///, c1995 CY - Orlando PB - Harcourt, Inc. KW - Survival KW - Psychology KW - Fiction KW - Allegories KW - Blind KW - Blindness KW - Epidemics KW - Psychological fiction N1 - Originally published in English in Great Britain in 1997 by The Harvill Press N2 - An epidemic of blindness strikes a city and the result is chaos, the government issuing shoot-to-kill orders. Much of the action is seen through the eyes of a woman who claims to be blind so she won't be separated from her husband. A look at how people behave under stress. By the author of The History of the Siege of Lisbon ER -