"Blindness" by José Saramago

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Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. A city is hit by an epidemic of ‘white blindness.’  The blindness spreads, sparing no one.  Authorities initially confine the blind to a vacant mental hospital secured by armed guards. What did the HBG make of it?  

Hove Book Group delivers its verdict on ”Blindness” by José Saramago.

The follow up is called “Seeing”.  Very good it is too.  Click here for more thoughts on “Seeing”.