In response to this mass act of rebellion, a state of emergency is declared. But when the ballots are counted, more than 70 percent are blank. Voters promptly rush to the polling stations, as if they had been ordered to appear. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o’clock, the rain finally stops. On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote.

Urn:oclc:67815987 Scandate 20101125061931 Scanner strange protest triggers a descent into paranoia and chaos in this “illuminating parable”-a sequel to the Nobel Prize-winning author’s Blindness (Ursula K. OL27420W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 89.89 Pages 358 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1860462979 Told with compassion, humor, and lyricism, Blindness is a stunning exploration of loss and disorientation in the modern world, of man's will to survive against all odds.'-BOOK JACKETĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:12:43 Boxid IA118613 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City San Diego, CA Curatenote shipped DonorĪlibris Edition 1st Harvest ed. The bonds within this oddly anonymous group - the doctor, the first blind man and his wife, the old man with the black eye patch, the girl with dark glasses, the boy with no mother, and the dog of tears - are as uncanny as the surrounding chaos is harrowing. She guides seven strangers through the barren streets. The compound is set ablaze, and the blind escape into what is now a deserted city, strewn with litter and unburied corpses.' 'The only eyewitness to this nightmare is the doctor's wife, who faked blindness in order to join her husband in the camp. Inside, the criminal element among the blind holds the rest captive: food rations are stolen, women are raped.

Authorities confine the blind to a vacant mental hospital secured by armed guards under instructions to shoot anyone trying to escape.

He is taken to an eye doctor, who does not know what to make of the phenomenon - and soon goes blind himself.' 'The blindness spreads, sparing no one. 'A city is struck by an epidemic of 'white blindness.' The first man to succumb sits in his car, waiting for the light to change. Originally published in English in Great Britain in 1997 by The Harvill Press

Blindness / Seeing by José Saramago