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by Jose Saramago

In this 1998 book by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, an unnamed city is beset by an epidemic of the "white sickness," a disease that instantly turns everyone blind. Everyone, that is, except for one woman. The novel follows the story of seven people who are quarantined along with 300 other people…

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Posted By the d #206437 at Oct 15, 2011 11:53 PM

What is the timespan of the novel?

Someone said that the timespan was a week, but so many people die and they die of starvation... so it has to be at least a month?

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Posted By zareef p #99447 at Jul 22, 2009 7:45 PM

what do the scissors signify

they always bring up the scissors in the book

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