A stunningly powerful novel of man's will to survive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. Atoc National Fares Manual. “This is a shattering work by a literary master.”— The Boston Globe A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year 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.

Buy a Kindle Kindle eBooks Kindle. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free. Blindness by Jose Saramago is. In his novel Blindness, Saramago completely abandons the use of proper nouns. 'The Year of the Death of Jose Saramago' in memoriam from n+1; Jose Saramago's blog.

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. Aug 31, 1998 – Brilliant Portuguese fabulist Saramago (The History of the Siege of Lisbon) has never shied away from big game. Cx One V4 Keygen Crack. His previous works have rewritten the history of Portugal, reimagined the life of Christ and remodeled a continent by cleaving the Iberian peninsula from Europe and setting it adrift. Here, Saramago stalks two of our oldest themes in the tale of a plague of blindness that strikes an unnamed European city.