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This is a shattering work by a literary master.The Boston Globe

This is an important book, one that is unafraid to face all of the horrors of the century.The Washington Post

Symphonic . . . [There is] a clear-eyed and compassionate acknowledgment of things as they are, a quality that can only honestly be termed wisdom. We should be grateful when it is handed to us in such generous measure.The New York Times Book Review

Saramago's surreal allegory explores the ability of the human spirit to prevail in even the most absurdly unjust of conditions, yet he reinvents this familiar struggle with the stylistic eccentricity of a master.The New Yorker

Extraordinarily nuanced and evocative . . . This year's most propulsive, and most profound, thriller.The Village Voice

Like Jonathan Swift, Saramago uses airily matter-of-fact detail to frame a bitter parable; unlike Swift he pierces the parable with a dart of steely tenderness . . . out of leisurely prose, the ferocity and tenderness shoot suddenly: arrows set alight. . . . Enchanting, sinuous dialogue.TheLos Angeles Times

Blindness may be as revolutionary in its own way and time as were, say, The Trial and The Plague in theirs. Another masterpiece.Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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