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Also by Jose Saramago:

Death with Interruptions, October 2008
Hardcover
Blindness, September 2008
Paperback

BLINDNESS
By: Jose Saramago

Harvest Books
September 2008
On Sale: September 2, 2008
352 pages
ISBN: 0156035588
EAN: 9780156035583
Paperback
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Fiction | Horror

A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and assaulting women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers—among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears—through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of man's worst appetites and weaknesses-and man's ultimately exhilarating spirit.

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