Blindness

Author: Jose Saramago

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  • : $24.95 AUD
  • : 9780099532163
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
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  • : 0.22
  • : October 2008
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 21mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : February 2022
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  • : books

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  • : Jose Saramago
  • : Paperback
  • : 10-Aug
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  • : English
  • : 869.342
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  • : 320
  • : Modern fiction
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Barcode 9780099532163
9780099532163

Description

A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An opthamologist 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 stem the epidemic, the authorities herd the afflicted into a mental asylum where the wards are terrorized by blind thugs. And when fire destroys the asylum, the inmates burst forth and the last links with a supposedly civilized society are snapped. No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. This is not anarchy, this is blindness.

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Author description

Jose Saramago was born in Portugal in 1922 and has been a full-time writer since 1979. His oeuvre embraces plays, poetry, short stories, non-fiction and eleven novels, which have been translated into more than forty languages and have established him as the most influential Portuguese writer of his generation. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.