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The representative work of Saramago, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, was selected into the "100 Best Literary Works of All Times" by the Nobel Academy. "This world is so bad that almost everyone has become intellectually blind because we are increasingly unwilling to open our eyes to see the world." Saramago started from a huge absurd idea and placed his characters in extreme environments, letting them fall into the abyss of human nature. Reading "Blindness" will bring an unforgettable shock to readers. The book tells the unsettling primitiveness and truth in shocking details, showing the ugliness of human beings in details. Doubling blindness makes reality more cruel and cruel. However, in this great horror, there are still warm and touching parts. The doctor's wife is our eyes and our conscience, allowing us to see the brilliance and beauty that cannot be concealed. This book was selected into the "100 Best Literary Works of All Times" by the Nobel Academy and is an important classic work of Saramago.

This collection of short stories by Saramago, the only Nobel laureate in the Portuguese-speaking world, is rare in his writing career! The sofa becomes feverish; the car kidnaps its driver; the mailbox and the entire building disappear out of thin air; the chair falls, and the dictator sitting on it falls with it; the king attempts to surround the city of the dead with a city of the living, but death once again stands out... Life repeatedly flows backwards, back to the starting point. This time, you must live like a human being.

No one dies on New Year's Day. This fact is contrary to common sense. The Prime Minister called on everyone not to panic. The newspapers published the news of "New Year, New Life" as usual, but the commotion has already spread: mankind has fallen into eternal old age, and pension reserves will be overwhelmed; funeral companies are facing bankruptcy and can only bury cats, dogs and canaries; pessimistic philosophers are worried: without death, the future will be a disaster. And Death, a skeletal lady wrapped in sheets who lives in a cold basement with a scythe, is satisfied with asserting herself for the first time ever and is ready to get back to work.