Blindness

Saramago, Jose

A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An opthamologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read the textbooks.

It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city.

Trying to stem the epidemic, the authorities herd the afflicted into a mental asylum where the wards are terrorised by blind thugs. And when fire destroys the asylum, the inmates burst forth and the last links with a supposedly civilised society are snapped. No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order.

This is not anarchy, this is blindness.

Kustantaja: Penguin
Sidosasu: Pehmeäkantinen
ean: 9780099573586
Ilmestymisvuosi: 2013
Kirjastoluokka: 84.5 Kaunokirjallisuus