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Seeing | José Saramago
7 posts | 18 read | 1 reading | 22 to read
On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o’clock, the rain finally stops. Promptly at four, voters rush to the polling stations, as if they had been ordered to appear. But when the ballots are counted, more than 70 percent are blank. The citizens are rebellious. A state of emergency is declared. But are the authorities acting too precipitously? Or even blindly? The word evokes terrible memories of the plague of blindness that hit the city four years before, and of the one woman who kept her sight. Could she be behind the blank ballots? A police superintendent is put on the case. What begins as a satire on governments and the sometimes dubious efficacy of the democratic system turns into something far more sinister. A singular novel from the author of Blindness.
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Seeing | José Saramago
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Very disconcerting.

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MayJasper
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Seeing | José Saramago
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It was many years, probably decades since I read this book. It's impact is still felt by me. Wow. I had never read anything like it before and still haven't. One day I will get round to reading Blindness.

#wanderingjune prompt 14 #roadtonowhere @Cinfhen @BarbaraBB

An investigation starts that is on the road to nowhere.

BarbaraBB Is it a sequel to this one?
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6y
Cinfhen I‘ve heard of Blindness!! Both books sound excellent!!!! 6y
MayJasper Seeing is book 2 of 2 in the Blindness series @BarbaraBB @Cinfhen 6y
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abookishbutterfly I‘ve read Blindness and have this one in my pile. I was planning to read it for my “a sequel†reading challenge prompt. Blindness was a powerful book. 6y
BarbaraBB Then I should read it. I loved Blindness! 6y
catheyb I loved Blindness and am hoping this is as good! 3y
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rachaich
rachaich
Seeing | José Saramago
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Oooh, my lovely best friend bought me this after I'd raved about Blindness :) :)
#christmasbook
@wormkim :)

wormkim Aw how thoughtful you lucky lady xx 7y
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kmcallion
kmcallion
Seeing | José Saramago
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Brilliant exploration of apathy and political control, written with craft and style. Saramago constructs a bleak picture of the nameless country he writes about but also offers shafts of light. Excellent stuff

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Quellelove
Quellelove
Seeing | José Saramago
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Our new book haul. The top 8 books are mine. 😬 The Harvard Bookstore warehouse sale is dangerous!

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Sapphire
Sapphire
Seeing | José Saramago
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At one of my favorite used bookstores, OGARA &Wilson, I stumbled across and chose this title. I didn't know there had been a sequel to Blindness. The blank ballots and political upheaval may make this be a modern day horror. The bookstore on the other hand is a delight.

pilardib a sequel?! 😱 thanks for sharing I'm definitely adding this one to my tbr list 8y
rabbitprincess That looks like a great bookstore! 8y
Sapphire @pilardib I know! 8y
Sapphire @rabbitprincess It really is a gem. Recently relocated to a neighboring town after having been in Chicago for generations 8y
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Moray_Reads
Moray_Reads
Seeing | José Saramago
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This one seems particularly pertinent, what if there was an election and nobody voted? Saramago as challenging and insightful as always.
#photoadaynov15 #politicalfiction

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