Description Shipping & Returns Reviews Description This is a second-hand, used copy of this book. Please check condition in product details before ordering. Used – Very Good: Shows some small signs of wear – but no tears – on either binding or paper. Used – Good: Average used worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Used – Fair: Worn book that has complete text pages but may have some small defect like slight tears. Will be noticeably worn. A stunningly powerful novel of humanitys will to survive against all odds during an epidemicby a winner of theNobel Prize for Literature. ‘This is a shattering work by a literary master.’ Boston Globe A city is hit by an epidemic of white blindness which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangersamong them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tearsthrough the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of our worst appetites and weaknessesand humanitysultimately exhilarating spirit. This is an important book, one that is unafraid to face all of the horror of the century. Washington Post Shipping & Returns Reviews