Blindness: A Haunting Literary Horror of Humanity's Survival and Social Breakdown – Nobel Prize Winner (Harvest Book) - Softcover

Saramago, José

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156007754 ISBN 13: 9780156007757

Verlag: Mariner Books, 1999

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A stunningly powerful novel of man's will to survive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature.

“This is a shattering work by a literary master.”—The Boston Globe

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year

 

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.

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JOSÉ SARAMAGO (1922–2010) was the author of many novels, among them Blindness, All the Names, Baltasar and Blimunda, and The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Mariner Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0156007754
• ISBN 13: 9780156007757
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
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