Blindness - Jose Saramago

An epidemic of "white blindness" strikes a city. This is the story of the first victims placed in a mental hospital and gradually abandoned as the entire city succumbs. Through the loss and disorientation the worst and best emerge. There is one eyewitness to the nightmare who guides seven strangers through the devastated landscape. This book meant for the adult reader is fascinating to read even in translaltion. The author, Jose Saramago won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998