Blindness

By José Saramago, 326 pages, original title Ensaio sobre a Cegueira, or Essay about Blindness. It's a big one in Portuguese (from Portugal) contemporary literature, and is an international best-seller about how blindness suddenly becomes an epidemic, spreading like an airborne disease and effecting everyone it comes into contact with, and one woman (julianne moore in the movie) who can still see through it all. It was really good, the style takes a bit of time to get into bc he uses punctuation sparingly and doesn't directly indicate who's speaking, but as the book goes on it gives the dialogue a much more realistic feel. It's pretty moving and I'd recommend it to anyone, particularly if you enjoy that post-apocalyptic genre of "everything is totally fucked" literature.