Jose Saramago

Blindness: a Novel (Blindness Series) Jose Saramago Unabridged edition

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 strangersamong them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tearsthrough 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 mans worst appetites and weaknessesand mans ultimately exhilarating spirit. This is the stunningly powerful novel of mans will to survive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature.