About this deal
As Blindness reclaims the age-old story of a plague, it evokes the vivid and trembling horrors of the twentieth century, leaving readers with a powerful vision of the human spirit that's bound both by weakness and exhilarating strength. A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. Kinda salesy, but there's worse things you could get in your inbox. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides her charges—among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears—through the barren streets, and their procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. Blurb: From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of lossA 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.
Reviews
Amazon Customer
Great book Blindness by José SaramagoAn intense psychological thriller, so beautifully written. The story itself is so engrossing, I've completed in just 5-6 days. Highly recommended for all class of readers.
Michaela Rouse
The book is in good condition, and I cannot wait to dive in. Infected people being sent for quarantine, their hellish life there, how they survive when the governance collapsed and how it ends. One thing is hard to place is the dialogue, a dialogue or a conversation is written on a stretch only separated by commas.
DeySpeakable Me
My only note of warning is that the cover did not look as depicted. The powerful writing gives a sense of being one member of the flock, you become one of them, seeing or not seeing every action over there. There you might have the problem to identify who's saying what, but you get this eventually. However I take no issue with this as it is still a handsome cover, but if you love the cover art portrayed for this item I would look elsewhere.
It's another contagion, where in a city people getting blind randomly starting from a traffic signal and then spreading through looking into their eyes. The blindness is called White Evil.