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Original Title:	Ensaio sobre a cegueira ASIN B003T0GBOM
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Blindness #1
Characters:	The doctor (Blindness), The doctor's wife, The girl with the dark glasses, The first blind man, The first blind man's wife, The boy with the squint, The old man with the black eye patch, The car thief
Literary Awards:	Premio San Clemente for Novela Estranxeira (1999), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (1999)

Blindness (Blindness #1) Kindle Edition | Pages: 349 pages

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Title	:	Blindness (Blindness #1)
Author	:	José Saramago
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 349 pages
Published	:	August 23rd 2013 by Mariner Books (first published 1995)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Fantasy. Paranormal. Romance. Paranormal Romance. Supernatural. Fiction

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From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of loss

A 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. 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. 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.

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Imagine the most ordinary situation in the world. People waiting at a traffic light. All of us can see that before our inner eyes, relive thousands of similar situations we have experienced ourselves, without ever giving them a moment of consideration. Thus starts Saramago's Blindness. But there is a disruption. One car is not following the rules all take for granted. The car doesn't move when the light switches to green. People are annoyed, frustrated, disturbed in their routines, but not

_Blindness_In the first half of this book i was constantly thinking "We are fucking animals". I found everything that was going on to be disturbing and disgusting. You know that feeling, the one that you feel like you want to vomit a little bit. The thing that frightened me the most was that i got used to it while the book was progressing. I didn't mind anymore. It is pretty clear. If we ever get to be in this situation that's how things will go. Or even worse. In the second half we get to relax

This book was brutal in the most literal sense of the term. It looks at how humans can devolve into savages when put in certain situations, in this case when a 'white blindness' epidemic breaks out and causes people to suddenly lose their sight for no explicable reason.Saramago is a pretty harsh critic, it seems, of organized structures like government or religionand that's most clearly seen in the ways that the affected people create communities, how they respond to crises, and ultimately how

I can *almost* slip this book into that enormous category that is zombie-fiction, but alas, no. There are no zombies here.There are, however, an increasingly large number of people going blind until there is only one left.Chaos ensues... one heartbreaking step at a time.Simple concept, of course, but in this case, it is brilliantly executed. The writing is clear and transforms us every step of the way from our modern society into a cold cinder of civilization, with the fall of humanity

When you sit in a coffee shop at the corner of two busy streets and read a book about blindness, you find yourself thinking unfamiliar thoughts, and you believe, when you raise your head to watch the people passing, that you see things differently. You notice the soft yellow light of the shop reflecting off the bronze of the hardwood floors. You notice among the people coming from the train two girls who intersect that line, spilt, call back, and go their ways, dividing into the two directions

We don't know what year it is, we don't know what city it is, all we know is that one minute a person can see, the next minute they can't. It's a white blindness that obliterates all vision immediately and is assumed to be highly contagious.An early band of affected citizens is sent to a mental ward, in the hopes of containing this sudden epidemic of blindness. Only one among them can see, a woman as unnamed as anyone else in the story, but we come to know her as the doctor's wife.And, since

This is definitely a book that people will either love or hate. It's just that kind of book. Not everyone is going to pick this up and like it. Even the people who end up really liking it, while reading it keep finding themselves putting down the book, looking around the room and sighing in discomfort, wondering if they should really continue. They will though, and they will once again find themselves fully immersed.Jose Saramago writes this specific story in such a way that you are one of the