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Blindness
José Saramago
Blindness (Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira, lit. 'Essay on Blindness') is a 1995 novel by Portuguese author José Saramago. It centers on an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in a nonspecific city, and follows multiple unnamed characters as they navigate the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel was translated into English by Giovanni Pontiero in 1997.
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GenreLiterary fiction
Vivek’s Notes
An unnamed country is stricken with a mysterious plague of "white blindness". Later made into a film. The 1998 Nobel laureate also wrote "All the Names" and "The Cave".
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