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Blindness / José Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Portuguese Publication details: Orlando : Harcourt, Inc., c2006, c1995.Edition: 1st Harvest ed. 1999Description: 334 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0151002517
  • 0156035588 (pbk.)
  • 9780151002511
  • 9780156035583 (pbk.)
Uniform titles:
  • Ensaio sobre a cegueira. English
Subject(s): Summary: 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.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Saramago, José Available 33111005542952
Total holds: 1

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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

Originally published in English in Great Britain in 1997 by The Harvill Press.

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.

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