Title:
Blindness / Jose Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.
ISBN:
9780156007757
9780151002511
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Harcourt Brace & Company, [1998]
©1997
Physical Description:
294 or 326 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
Translation of: Ensaio sobre a cegueira.
Originally published in English in Great Britain in 1997 by The Harvill Press.
Special features and enhancements may vary by copy.
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." -- Publisher.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.1 21.0 68829.
Added Author:
Language Note:
Translated from Portuguese.
OCLC Number:
ocm38478497
Availability:
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