Blindness Book Review
From nobel prize winning author josé saramago a magnificent mesmeri.
Blindness book review. It is a suffocatingly immersive dive into the failings of human nature. Blindness by jose saramago is not a book that you read more than once. The embattled relationships among the people of a city mysteriously struck by an epidemic of blindness form the core of this superb novel by the internationally acclaimed saramago the portugese author of most recently the history of the siege of lisbon 1997.
Myla goldberg says saramago vividly illustrates disaster s. Blindness tells the story of an anonymous city that is stricken with a mysterious illness that blinds a majority of the population a man is suddenly and mysteriously blinded. Read 541 reviews from the world s largest community for readers.
How are ratings calculated. Blindness is one of those rare books that crawled inside my head and has stayed with me for years after i read it. Seeing by josé saramago translated by margaret jull costa 352pp harvill secker 11 99.
Read 16 299 reviews from the world s largest community for readers. Love is blind is william boyd s sweeping heart stopping new novel. Seeing past surfaces in blindness october 2 2008 julianne moore plays a seeing woman in a sightless world in blindness the film adaptation of jose saramago s apocalyptic novel.
Faced with pages of. A driver stalled at a busy intersection suddenly suffers an attack of white blindness no other color or any shape is. It transported me to another world and made me see my own world with new eyes.
In saramago s blindness a vision of human nature jose saramago tells the grim tale of a city devastated by an epidemic of blindness. Some years ago a reliable friend told me i should read josé saramago s blindness. Love is blind book.
It is filled with language that you can re read and savour. 5 star 55 4 star 15 3 star 14 2 star 7 1 star 8 blindness harvest book by jose saramago. Blindness harvest book customer reviews.
