One of the great masterpieces of Saramago, an author known by his peculiar way of writing, in this book he creates a whole situation that shows how we, humans, react to a crisis. The story star when a men suddenly gets blind, but not an ordinary blindness, a white one, after this, the blindness spreads all over, and only a women immune. With this, she must guide and help everyone, and deal with the ones that are not blind, yet.

Heartbreaking storytelling of the holocaust. In this book, Primo Levi tells everything that was never told, since ways of surviving daily in the concentration camp to how things really worked there. The book is haunting, and will make you reflect about your life.