Blindness - Panther S.
by Jose Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero
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Synopsis
A city is hit by an epidemic of sudden blindness. The authorities segregate the newly-blind and all who have come into contact with them. It is not long before the criminal element take over, the compound is set on fire and the blind escape - only to find a deserted, looted city.
Book details
Published
02/09/1999
Publisher
The Harvill Press
ISBN
9781860466854
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UK Kirkus review
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)
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