Blindness (Movie Tie-In)

The author was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. In this novel (now a major motion picture), a city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but here the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and assaulting women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A moving parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the 20th century. 334p.