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Blindness [electronic resource] / José Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.

by Saramago, José.

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San Diego, CA : Harcourt, Inc., 1999., c1997.

Blindness -- Fiction.

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http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=C06A6645-EFB6-4FC9-A187-D20CE092CDB5 This title is available online; click here to access

9780547537597 (electronic bk.)

054753759X (electronic bk.)

1 online resource (327 p.)

1st Harvest ed.

"A city is struck by an epidemic of "white blindness." Authorities confine the blind to a vacant mental hospital secured by armed guards under instructions to shoot anyone trying to escape. Inside, the criminal element among the blind holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and assaulting women. 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 is a powerful portrayal of man's worst appetites and weaknesses--and man's ultimately exhilarating spirit"--P. [4] of cover.

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