![]() ![]() ![]() People suddenly go blind people who haven't (yet) gone blind quarantine those who have. It also invites speculation of "would that happen here?" It would. ![]() As with other dystopic literature, this adds to the bleak circumstances that befall its characters. The author provides very few identifiers, and the result is that this could be anywhere. We don't know the city we don't know the country. "This is a an important book, one that is unafraid to face all of the horror of the century."- Washington PostĪ New York Times Notable Book of the YearĪ Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year Read more A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of our worst appetites and weaknesses-and humanity's ultimately exhilarating spirit. 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. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. "This is a shattering work by a literary master.”- Boston GlobeĪ city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one.A stunningly powerful novel of humanity's will to survive against all odds during an epidemic by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. ![]()
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