We don't know why it happened - whether it's a test, a warning, or a punishment. The world is a bleak picture of desolation and destruction. Even the saints in the churches are blinded. Excrement covers sidewalks, dogs munch on human corpses, the blind rot in the stores after futile attempts to find food. “Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.”Īs the blindness epidemic spreads, we see the disintegration of society just like we witnessed the destruction of humanity in the quarantine area. Before we know, we are immersed in the horrifying surreal world of hopelessness, filth, violence, and hate, where the true enemy is not their affliction but people themselves, which we can see through the eyes of the only person who appears immune to blindness. What they succeed at is immediately creating the easy "us versus them" divide between the helpless newly blind and the terrified seeing. Initial attempts to hastily quarantine the blind in an abandoned mental hospital fail to contain the spread.
Please enjoy the pictures to illustrate the plot while I recover my gift of rambling.Īn unexplained plague of "white blindness" sweeps the unnamed country. This book left me speechless (which is a rare occurrence).
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