false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1161054114m/2539.jpg 47667 29 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. What begins as a satire on governments and the sometimes dubious efficacy of the democratic system turns into something far more sinister. A singular novel from the author of Blindness. 1090709 book 2005 Seeing total:1336|5:256|4:471|3:390|2:167|1:48| 1336 4728 2556 250 826797 1843432323 9781843432326 3 4 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178729219m/826797.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/826797.Seeing 5 8 false Mon Oct 01 01:17:47 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 18 16:58:47 -0700 2008 2 add beberapa bulan lalu dg sedikit review. Tapi pengen memperpanjang reviewnya gara2 terpicu oleh kaus yang dipakai Gieb dalam acara peluncuran bukunya Nielam dkk, bunyinya: Mending pilih2 buku daripada pilih2 partai

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If you don't like long paragraphs with the dialogue embedded instead of pulled out as quotes, then you might get frustrated.

This book is so painfully true about the nature of all governments--the farcical nature of relations...more...]]> 47667 0156032732 9780156032735 1076 204 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170348104m/47667.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47667.Seeing 4 1 false Wed Sep 12 06:53:17 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 07:35:30 -0700 2007 more...]]> 47667 0156032732 9780156032735 1076 204 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170348104m/47667.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47667.Seeing 5 1 false Wed May 21 19:13:18 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 05 09:49:06 -0700 2008 Wed May 21 19:13:18 -0700 2008
I find one aspect of _S...more...]]> 47667 0156032732 9780156032735 1076 204 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170348104m/47667.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47667.Seeing 2 3 false Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 21:14:31 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 02 13:02:31 -0800 2009 47667 0156032732 9780156032735 1076 204 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170348104m/47667.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47667.Seeing 2 0 true Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 03 03:38:05 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 03:56:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 47667 0156032732 9780156032735 1076 204 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170348104m/47667.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47667.Seeing 5 1 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jan 03 12:22:53 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 03 13:41:46 -0800 2008 Blindness when I was checking the library shelves for other books by Saramago. I say pseudo-sequel because it's not necessarily referred to as a sequel in anything I've found, yet it does reference the events and primary characters found in Blindness. Eq...more...]]> 47667 0156032732 9780156032735 1076 204 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170348104m/47667.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47667.Seeing 3 1 false Fri Mar 06 20:22:09 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 20:51:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2525 0151012385 9780151012381 121 20 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1161054076m/2525.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2525.Seeing 3 0 false Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 21:11:14 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 19:01:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2525 0151012385 9780151012381 121 20 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1161054076m/2525.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2525.Seeing 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:47:13 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:47:13 -0800 2009 The same dense, relentless style that has won Portuguese writer Saramago accolades throughout a long career meets with some ambivalence in Seeing, a sequel to Blindness (1998). In the manner of that earlier novel, Seeing combines the author's trademark verbal convolutions with an allegory of power a...

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