Blindness
Ranked #2 in Blindness, Ranked #9 in Nobel — see more rankings.
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and assaulting women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides her charges—among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears—through the barren streets, and their procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. As Blindness... more
Reviews and Recommendations
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Samantha Harvey It because it brings up the question of what conditions are necessary for sanity and what happens when you take those conditions away. (Source)
Leah Lizarondo The version of dystopia in this book is provocative but truly, the style and structure is what makes the book even more memorable. I always think about our humanity and how fallible we are. I love that this book tackles that but ultimately, our true core--what is good--triumphs. That is pretty much how I look at life. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Blindness is ranked in the following categories:
- #55 in Copenhagen
- #80 in End Of The World
- #76 in Existential
- #89 in Fear
- #37 in Human Nature
- #86 in Novel
- #15 in Pandemic
- #41 in Translated
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