Blindness
Author: José Saramago
Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel follows the misfortunes of a handful of characters who are among the first to be stricken and centers on “the doctor’s wife,” her husband, several of his patients, and assorted others, thrown together by….Read More
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