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Blindness

Saramago, José (author.). Pontiero, Giovanni, (translator.).

Summary: An epidemic of blindness strikes a city and the result is chaos, the government issuing shoot-to-kill orders. Much of the action is seen through the eyes of a woman who claims to be blind so she won't be separated from her husband. A look at how people behave under stress. By the author of The History of the Siege of Lisbon.

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ISBN: 0151002517
ISBN: 9780151002511
ISBN: 0156007754
ISBN: 9780156007757
Physical Description: print
294 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Harcourt, [1998]

Contents / Notes

General Note:	Translated from: Ensaio sobre a cegueira : romance. Lisboa : Caminho, c1995. Originally published in English: London : Harvill Press, 1997.
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.1 21.0 68829.
Awards Note:	Nobel Prize for Literature, 1998

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