Blindness
- ISBN-10
- 0151002517
- ISBN-13
- 9780151002511
- Series
- Blindness
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 294
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- José Saramago
Description
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" whose victims are confined to a vacant mental hospital, while a single eyewitness to the nightmare guides seven oddly assorted strangers through the barren urban landscape
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- 2001-04-13
- 213 pages
- Paperback
- Routledge
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