Seeing (Blindness #2)

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Jose Saramago

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Despite the heavy rain, the presiding officer at polling station 14 finds it odd that by midday on national election day, only a handful of voters have turned out. Puzzlement swiftly escalates to shock when, after an extension, the final count reveals that seventy percent of the votes are blank - not spoiled, simply blank. National law decrees that the election should be repeated eight days later. The result is worse: eighty-three percent of the votes are blank, with the incumbent government receiving eight percent and the opposition even less. The authorities, seized with panic, decamp from the capital and place it under a state of emergency. In his new novel, José Saramago has deftly created the politician's ultimate nightmare: disillusionment not with one party, but with all, thereby rendering the entire democratic system useless. The novel sees how simply this could be achieved and how devastating the results might be.

 

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