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Blindness
  • Published: 3 June 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099573586
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $24.99
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Blindness

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3 June 2013
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20 Sept 2013
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A chillingly powerful dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers

No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order.
Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers.

A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist 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.

This is not anarchy, this is blindness.
‘Saramago repeatedly undertakes to unite the pressing demands of the present with an unfolding vision of the future. This is his most apocalyptic, and most optimistic, version of that project yet’ Independent
  • Published: 3 June 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099573586
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $24.99
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Praise for Blindness

This is a shattering work by a literary master...a book of real stature

Boston Globe

He writes a prose of particularly luminous intensity, brilliantly rendered into English by his regular translator Giovanni Pontiero...Sweepingly ambitious

The Times

Saramago repeatedly undertakes to unite the pressing demands of the present with an unfolding vision of the future. This is his most apocalyptic, and most optimistic, version of that project yet.

Independent

A powerful fable

Scotsman

Saramago's exuberant imagination, capriciousness and clear-sightedness find full expression in this engaging work

Extraordinary...a tour de force of thought-experiment and feeling-experiment

Observer

Blistering, unrelenting, horrifying, yet still somehow luminously redemptive

White Review, *Books of the Year*