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Seeing
de Saramago, Jose
- Usado
- as new
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 0099483629
- ISBN 13
- 9780099483625
- Librería
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North Shields, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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Vintage, 2007 About the book: 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 eventually, after an extension, the final count reveals seventy per cent of the votes are blank - not spoiled, simply blank national law decrees the election should be repeated eight days later the result is worse; eighty-three per cent of the votes are blank the incumbent government receives eight per cent 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 politicians ultimate nightmare: disillusionment not with one party, but with all, thereby rendering the entire democratic system useless seeing explores how simply this could be achieved and how devastating the results might be. Soft cover. As New.
Sinopsis
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. What's going on? 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. The president proposes that a wall be built around the city to contain the revolution. But are the authorities acting too precipitously? Or even blindly? The word evokes terrible memories of the plague of blindness that had hit the city four years before, and of the one woman who kept her sight. Could she be behind the blank ballots? Is she the organizer of a conspiracy against the state? 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.
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- Librería
- Emily Green Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 323
- Título
- Seeing
- Autor
- Saramago, Jose
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0099483629
- ISBN 13
- 9780099483625
- Editorial
- Vintage
- Fecha de publicación
- 2007
- Palabras clave
- POLITICS, FASCINATING
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