02509cam a2200469 i 4500 623808970 TxAuBib 20150713120000.0 080915s1999||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 98012009 9780151002511 0151002517 9780156035583 paperback 0156035588 paperback (OCoLC)250469034 ZHK eng rda ZHK GZD TxAuBib rda eng por Saramago, Jos©♭. Blindness / Jos©♭ Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. First Harvest edition. Orlando : Harcourt, Inc., 1999. 334 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Translation of: Ensaio sobre a cegueira. Originally published in English in Great Britain in 1997 by The Harvill Press. A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping 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 has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of man's worst appetites and weaknesses-and man's ultimately exhilarating spirit. The stunningly powerful novel of man's will to survive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.1 21 68829. 20150713. Blind Fiction. Blindness Psychology Fiction. Epidemics Fiction. Survival Psychology Fiction. Allegories. Fiction. Psychological fiction. Pontiero, Giovanni. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/har031/98012009.html Publisher description https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0733/98012009-b.html Contributor biographical information TXKPL