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moftasa

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Psychiatrist based in Cairo, Egypt. More at moftasa.net

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Blindness (1999) 4 stars

Blindness (Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira, meaning Essay on Blindness) is a 1995 novel by …

Review of 'Blindness' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

One can think of COVID-19 as a pandemic of the loss of the sense of smell, what if it was a another sense? Saramago wrote this story. Loved the writing and I couldn't put it down (finished it in two days). Nothing, from what we know about how people, the body or epidemics work, is realistic and it is of course quite cruel to blind people but still a damn good story.