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1) Blindness
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
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. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings...
2) Surrender
Author
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning Spanish author Ray Loriga comes a dystopian novel about authority, manipulation, and the disappearance of privacy that "calls to mind The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood [and] Blindness by José Saramago" (Alfaguara Prize Winner Citation)"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Leya, SA
Pub. Date
2016
Language
Portuguese
Description
An epidemic of blindness strikes a city and the result is chaos, the government issuing shoot-to-kill orders. Much of the action is seen through the eyes of a woman who claims to be blind so she won't be separated from her husband. A look at how people behave under stress. By the author of The History of the Siege of Lisbon.
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Un hombre parado ante un semáforo en rojo se queda ciego súbitamente. Es el primer caso de una "ceguera blanca" que se expande de manera fulminante. Internados en cuarentena o perdidos en la ciudad, los ciegos tendrán que enfrentarse con lo que existe de más primitivo en la naturaleza humana: la voluntad de sobrevivir a cualquier precio. --Publisher.
Standing before a red light, a man suddenly goes blind. He is the first in an epidemic of blindness...
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