Blindness

Blindness

by José Saramago
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Publisher:
Random House
Genre:Fiction
Language: en
Published:2013
ISBN13:9780099573586
ISBN10:009957358X

About the Book

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 text books. 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 terrorised by blind thugs. And when fire destroys the asylum the inmates burst forth and the last links with a supposedly civilised society are snapped.