Blindness - Jose Saramago

After reading Kirsty1’s review of this novel on Ciao, I put it on my list of books to borrow from the library. I finished reading it yesterday, after a few weeks of what often felt like an uphill struggle, but I am pleased I read it and thought I’d share my thoughts and feelings on it with you. I hadn’t heard of Jose Saramago before, but he apparently won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. As this novel was originally written in Portuguese, I had to read an English version of Blindness, this one being published by Panther and translated by Giovanni Pontiero. My whole reason for picking up this book was for the wonderfully ...  Read the complete review

Jose Saramago is a Portugese writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998, shortly after the publication of his latest book, 'Blindness'. In this novel, the occupants of an unspecified city are struck with an epidemic of blindness, which causes their sight to turn completely white. The epidemic begins when a driver is struck blind while waiting at a set of traffic lights, and visits an ophthalmologist, who subsequently becomes blind overnight. Soon, the city's authorities take drastic action to attempt to contain the disease, sending the blind, and those that have been exposed to them, into quarantine in a disused mental asylum, ...  Read the complete review