Sci-fi

Blindness

by José SaramagoBook 1 of Blindness
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Description

A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping 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.

What it’s like

ViolenceVisceral/Realistic
HorrorTerrifying
SpiceModerate

Details

First published
1995
Pages
320
Reading time
About 6 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Language
English
ISBN
9781448180981
Series
Blindness, Book 1

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