| Title:
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BLINDNESS
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| By: |
Jose Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1860466850 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781860466854 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 1999 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Translated from: |
Portuguese |
| Description: |
A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An opthamologist tries to diagnose his distinctive 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 terrorised by blind thugs. |
| Synopsis: |
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 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. No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. This is not anarchy, this is blindness. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
The Harvill Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |