Blindness /
Saramago, José
Blindness / José Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. - London : Vintage Books, 2013. - 309 p. ; 20 cm. - Vintage classics .
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.
9780099573586
Blind--Fiction
869
Blindness / José Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. - London : Vintage Books, 2013. - 309 p. ; 20 cm. - Vintage classics .
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.
9780099573586
Blind--Fiction
869