Blindness
13 hrs. 4 min.
Language
Russian
Author
José Saramago
Author
José Saramago
Narrator
Irina Yerisanova
Narrator
Irina Yerisanova
Description
José Saramago is the leading writer of contemporary Portugal and a Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (1998). “Blindness” is one of his best-known novels—a kind of author’s calling card. The residents of an unnamed city in an unnamed country are struck by a mysterious epidemic of blindness. In an attempt to contain its spread, frightened authorities impose the strictest quarantine and evacuate all the sick to an abandoned hospital under the supervision of the army. The main characters are an ophthalmologist doctor who couldn’t escape the disease and his wife, who pretends to be blind so they won’t have to be separated. Together they search for fragments of order and humanity in a world that is steadily sliding into chaos…
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