Ensayo Sobre La Ceguera / Blindness, (Paperback)

from bookworm12

As an epidemic of blindness spreads throughout the country and people have no idea what is causing it. While government officials work to contain it, those who have already been struck blind are interred in a mental hospital with no supervision. The wicked individuals rise to the top and take adv...

from railarson

The very evening I finished reading José Saramago's brilliant novel Blindness, I found out that Fernando Meirelles has made a movie of it staring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo. Jesus Christ, I thought, who in their right mind would want to see that? Don't get me wrong, it is a very powerful wor...

from Donna828

This book was utterly spellbinding. Briefly, it is a story of the chaos and mass hysteria that radiated throughout an unnamed city as it was crushed by a virulent form of white blindness. Human suffering knows no bounds as the breakdown of society escalates. At the beginning, I was put off by the...

from TadAD

I'm not sure that there's a whole lot I can say about this copiously-reviewed book that won't be found many places. The story follows the basic structure of a post-apocalyptic novel: a catatrophe strikes-in this case, an entire city (at least) is stricken blind-and the reader watches as well-orde...

from phebj

This is a book that demands your attention--you have to struggle at times to understand what is going on. It's the story of people in an unnamed city that mysteriously start to go blind until all but one person succumbs. The characters are never named, just described, and the narrative purposely ...