{"product_id":"seeing-9780156032735","title":"Seeing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The clarity and compassion of [Saramago's] vision make \u003cem\u003eSeeing\u003c\/em\u003e worthy of its name.\" --\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ​\"I have never read a novel that gets so many details of the political behavior that we for some reason insist on calling 'organized' so hilariously and grimly right.\" --\u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o'clock, the rain finally stops. Promptly at four, voters rush to the polling stations, as if they had been ordered to appear.But when the ballots are counted, more than 70 percent are blank. The citizens are rebellious. A state of emergency is declared. But are the authorities acting too precipitously? Or even blindly? The word evokes terrible memories of the plague of blindness that hit the city four years before, and of the one woman who kept her sight. Could she be behind the blank ballots? A police superintendent is put on the case.\u003cp\u003eWhat begins as a satire on governments and the sometimes dubious efficacy of the democratic system turns into something far more sinister.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCosta, Margaret Jull:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eMARGARET JULL COSTA has established herself as the premier translator of Portuguese literature into English today.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaramago, José:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJOSÉ SARAMAGO (1922-2010) was the author of many novels, among them \u003ci\u003eBlindness, All the Names, Baltasar and Blimunda, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis.\u003c\/i\u003e In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50719065440530,"sku":"9780156032735","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d7c3f91a-7bf5-4dd8-864d-e9a2db9ffe88.jpg?v=1734657253","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/seeing-9780156032735","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}