Blindness : a novel

SUMMARY: Portuguese Nobel Laureate Saramago tells a fantastic tale about a city hit by an epidemic of "white blindness," in this work that is the basis for the upcoming movie with Julianne Moore. Literary,Fiction,General,Psychological,Modern fiction,Blind,Regression (Civilization),Blindness Uma cegueira branca se espalha de forma fulminante. Internados em quarentena ou perdidos pela cidade, os cegos devem enfrentar o que há de mais primitivo na espécie humana: a vontade de sobreviver à qualquer custo. José Saramago, vencedor do Prêmio Nobel de Literatura de 1998, tece uma aterrorizante parábola sobre o ser humano, que revela o que há de pior em nós mesmos. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero, a thriller about a city hit by an epidemic of sudden blindness, where the authorities herd the afflicted into camps, and the criminal element among the blind soon starts to make its mark. From the author of THE STONE RAFT and THE YEAR OF THE DEATH OF RICARDO REIS. A city is hit by an epidemic of sudden blindness. As in a plague-ridden city, the authorities segregate the newly-blind and all who have come into contact with them; they are herded into camps by armed guards under instruction to shoot anyone trying to escape. José Saramago ; Translated From The Portuguese By Giovanni Pontiero.