![]() “This is an important book, one that is unafraid to face all of the horrors of the century.” “This is a shattering work by a literary master.” 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. 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. ![]() Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and assaulting women. ![]() Genre: Book2Screen, Dystopia, Horror, Literary Fictionįrom Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of lossĪ city is hit by an epidemic of “white blindness” that spares no one. ![]()
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