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1) Blindness
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Language
English
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A stunningly powerful novel of humanity's will to survive against all odds during an epidemic by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
An International Bestseller • "This is a shattering work by a literary master."—Boston Globe
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,...
An International Bestseller • "This is a shattering work by a literary master."—Boston Globe
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,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
A “winkingly blasphemous retelling of the Old Testament” by the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Gospel According the Jesus Christ (The New Yorker).
In José Saramago final novel, he daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Old Testament. Placing the despised murderer Cain in the role of protagonist, this epic tale ranges from the Garden of Eden, when God realizes he has
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by a true story follows the adventures of a neglected elephant who is given by King João III of Portugal to Archduke Maximilian as a wedding gift and who travels with the archduke through the war-torn storied cities of sixteenth-century Europe.
4) Skylight
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of ordinary people, Skylight tells the intertwined stories of the residents of a faded apartment building in 1940s Lisbon. --
5) Blindness
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A mysterious blindness epidemic affects an entire city forcing the government to quarantine those affected; one woman, unaffected by the epidemic, feigns blindness to stay with her husband and help those in the chaotic quarantine facility.
6) Enemy
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Adam Bell, a glum, disheveled history professor who seems disinterested even in his beautiful girlfriend Mary. Watching a movie on the recommendation of a colleague, Adam spots his double; a bit-part actor named Anthony St. Clair, and decides to track him down. The identical men meet and their lives become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined.
