Blindness
$21.25
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
3 June 2013
Summary
A chillingly powerful dystopian vision from one of Europe’s greatest writers.
No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order.
Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from one of Europe’s greatest writers.
A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read the textbooks.
It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city. T…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099573586 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009957358X |
| Author: | José Saramago |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 3 June 2013 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
Extraordinary…a tour de force of thought-experiment and feeling-experiment
Extraordinary…a tour de force of thought-experiment and feeling-experiment * Observer *
This is a shattering work by a literary master…a book of real stature * Boston Globe *
Saramago repeatedly undertakes to unite the pressing demands of the present with an unfolding vision of the future. This is his most apocalyptic, and most optimistic, version of that project yet. * Independent *
He writes a prose of particularly luminous intensity, brilliantly rendered into English by his regular translator Giovanni Pontiero…Sweepingly ambitious * The Times *
A powerful fable * Scotsman *
Saramago’s exuberant imagination, capriciousness and clear-sightedness find full expression in this engaging work
Blistering, unrelenting, horrifying, yet still somehow luminously redemptive * White Review, Books of the Year *
About The Author
José Saramago
Jose Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010.
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