Word: saramago
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago's most recent novel, Blindness, tells the horrifying story of an epidemic of blindness that spreads across the world, destroying families, social institutions and, eventually, every shred of recognizable civilization. The blindness begins when one man is suddenly and inexplicably struck with a strange, dazzling white blindness. Helplessly seeking to find an explanation and cure, the man infects everyone he meets. The blindness does not discern between good and evil--it infects a car thief as easily as a doctor, a prostitute as easily as a child...