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Authorities confine the blind to a vacant mental hospital secured by armed guards under instructions to shoot anyone trying to escape. Inside, the criminal element among the blind holds the rest captive: food rations are stolen, women are raped.
539 p. (large print) ; 22 cm. This book is about the chaos that ensues when a city is struck with an epidemic of blindness in which its victims see only white. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.
Blindness By José Saramago free pdf book download from here. “Blindness”, a notable novel by the Portuguese writer José Saramago, was first published in 1995. The narrative unfolds in an unnamed city that is suddenly plagued by an inexplicable “white blindness” epidemic that affects everyone.
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.
José Saramago’s involving language portrays an awkward, but not at all impossible, situation: a place where everybody is blind, but one woman (ironically, the ophthalmologist’s wife).
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.
Book 1 of 2: Blindness. See all formats and editions. A stunningly powerful novel of humanity's will to survive against all odds during an epidemic by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. An International Bestseller • "This is a shattering work by a literary master.”—Boston Globe.
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...
Blindness. By JOSÉ SARAMAGO. Harcourt Brace & Company. Read the Review. The amber light came on. Two of the cars ahead accelerated before the red light appeared. At the pedestrian crossing the...
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