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Blindness

José Saramago · 1995

352 pages

A driver suddenly goes blind, and the same blindness spreads through the city in a wave. The first victims are quarantined in an abandoned asylum, where order collapses, and one doctor's wife pretends to be blind so she can stay with her husband.

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Apocalypse, Post-Apocalyptic World, Survival, Asylum, Philosophical

Content warnings: Sexual violence

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