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1999, c1995., Harcourt Brace & Company Call No: Fic Sar Edition: 1st Harvest ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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1999., c1997., Harcourt, Inc. Edition: 1st Harvest ed. Summary Note: "A city is struck by an epidemic of "white blindness." Authorities confine the blind to a vacant mental hospital secured by armed guards under instructions to shoot anyone trying to escape. Inside, the criminal element among the blind holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and assaulting 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 are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the twientieth century, Blindness is a powerful portrayal of man's worst appetites and weaknesses--and man's ultimately exhilarating spirit"--P. [4] of cover.
![Blindness [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT74420.JPG "Blindness [eBook]")
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2011., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Fic Sar Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library Summary Note: "In this, his last novel, Saramago daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Bible through the story of Cain. Condemned to wander forever after he kills Abel, he is whisked around in time and space. He experiences the almost-sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham, the Tower of Babel, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Joshua at the battle of Jericho, Job's ordeal, and finally Noah's ark and the Flood. And over and over again Cain encounters an unjust, even cruel God. A startling, beautifully written, and powerful book, in all ways a fitting end to Saramago's extraordinary career"--
![Cain : [a novel]](/Library/images/~imageCT80530.JPG "Cain : [a novel]")
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2010., Adult, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Fic Sar Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In 1551, King Joô III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon. The elephant<U+2019>s journey from Lisbon to Vienna was witnessed and remarked upon by scholars, historians, and ordinary people. Out of this material, José Saramago has spun a novel already heralded as 'a triumph of language, imagination, and humor' (El País). Solomon and his keeper, Subhro, begin in dismal conditions, forgotten in a corner of the palace grounds. When it occurs to the king and queen that an elephant would be an appropriate wedding gift, everyone rushes to get them ready: Subhro is given two new suits of clothes and Solomon a long overdue scrub. Accompanied by the Archduke, his new wife, and the royal guard, our unlikely heroes traverse a continent riven by the Reformation and civil wars. They make their way through the storied cities of northern Italy: Genoa, Piacenza, Mantua, Verona, Venice, and Trento, where the Council of Trent is in session. They brave the Alps and the terrifying Isarco and Brenner Passes; they sail across the Mediterranean Sea and up the Inn River (elephants, it turns out, are natural sailors). At last they make their grand entry into the imperial city. The Elephant<U+2019>s Journey is a delightful, witty tale of friendship and adventure."--Publisher.
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2007., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Edition: eBook ed. Series Title: Harvest book.Summary Note: On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule for another day? Around three o'clock, the rain finally stops. At four, voters rush to the polling stations, as if ordered to appear. But when the ballots are counted, more than 70% are blank. The citizens are rebellious. A state of emergency is declared. The president proposes that a wall be built around the city. 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? Is she the organizer of a conspiracy against the state? What begins as a satire on governments and the sometimes dubious efficacy of the democratic system turns into something far more sinister.--From publisher description.
![Seeing [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT81699.JPG "Seeing [eBook]")
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c1991., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Call No: Fic Sar Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
