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Blindness

José Saramago

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1995
Originally in
Originally in Portuguese
Pages
Pages 350

An epidemic of white blindness sweeps a city and the blind are herded into a filthy asylum, where one woman who can still see hides it and holds a small group human.

If you can see, look. If you can look, observe.
Blindness, José Saramago

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