Blindness
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A man stops at a traffic light and goes blind. The blindness spreads through his city, the infected are quarantined together, and inside the asylum the only seeing person, the doctor's wife, watches everything.
Jose Saramago won the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature shortly after Blindness was published, in recognition of his body of work including Blindness. The novel itself did not win the prize, but it is often cited as a leading example of his Nobel-recognized work.
Yes. Saramago's signature style uses long sentences, no quotation marks, minimal punctuation, and unnamed characters. Most readers adjust to the rhythm but find it demanding throughout. The content is also bleak.
Blindness was written by José Saramago, published in 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Blindness is a standalone novel by José Saramago, not part of a series.
Blindness is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
