Blindness (Harvest Book) Folklore to the great emergency of

to the great emergency of our age

a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies

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Blindness (Harvest Book) Folklore to the great emergency ofA stunningly powerful novel of humanity's will to survive against all odds during an epidemic by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. An International Bestseller "This is a shattering work by a literary master.Boston Globe A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women.