What if everyone in the country was blind?? This is a great book for bookclubs. It's hard to get used to the grammar; quotation marks aren't used and a single sentence can go on for an entire page (I'm guessing it's related to the Portuguese translation). Nevertheless, it's a haunting and compelling read. Highly recommended.

posted Feb 21, 2007 at 8:15PM

This provocative, chilling novel explores what happens when a large percentage of a city's inhabitants are suddenly struck blind. Reminiscent both of Camus's *The Plague* and Golding's *Lord of the Flies*, but perhaps more immediate for featuring a married couple's (one blinded, one not) struggle at its center.

posted Nov 8, 2008 at 1:12PM

To me this book is a great probe into the ideas and emotions of how I would fair if this happen to me. The story trapped me in and I was happy and sad to finish reading it. Over the years I have recommend this to many of my friends.

posted Mar 15, 2011 at 10:40AM

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