Seeing

José Saramago · 2004 CE · Novel · Portuguese · Contemporary

Four years after the plague of white blindness, most of an unnamed capital's voters cast blank ballots in a single election, and the government answers with a state of siege and a search for a ringleader. It brings back characters from Blindness and turns that book's fable of social collapse into one of democratic dissent.

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  José Saramago · 1995 CE · Novel

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