Blindness (Harvest Book) Folklore and has come to represent

and has come to represent both a genre of film and an era of pop culture

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to the great emergency of our age

Blindness (Harvest Book) Folklore and has come to representA 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.