Blindness
- London : Vintage 1999
- 309 p. ; 20 cm
- Vintage Classics .
Translated from the Portuguese.
Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago's spellbinding tale begins when an unnamed man in an unnamed city is suddenly struck blind. In the days that follow, everyone he comes in contact with comes down with the mysterious condition. As the blindness spreads to epidemic proportions, the government responds by isolating the infected in an abandoned mental hospital where social conditions quickly deteriorate.