TY - BOOK AU - Saramago,José AU - Pontiero,Giovanni TI - Blindness T2 - Vintage classics SN - 9780099573586 U1 - 869 PY - 2013/// CY - London PB - Vintage Books KW - Blind KW - Fiction N2 - 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 ER -