Blindness

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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.

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Published
02/09/1999

Publisher
The Harvill Press

ISBN
9781860466854

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An epidemic of blindness cuts throguh society, a rapidly spreading contagion without explanation or cure. The government effects total quarantine on the afflicted and interns them in a lunatic asylum under armed guard. A hellish vision is created as the quarantine fails to halt the epidemic and the interned blind fail to achieve anything like a utopia inside their overcrowded, sightless kingdom. This Nobel Prize-Winning author has conceived an outstanding scenario that reads like The Day of the Triffids written by Kafka. His unique style, ignoring punctuation, creates a fluid stream of prose, plugging the reader directly into the writer's consciousness. (Kirkus UK)