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Seeing. Jose Saramago480 руб
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. 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. The result is worse; eighty-three per cent of the votes are blank. National law decrees the election should be repeated eight days later. The authorities, seized with panic, decamp from the capital and place it under a state of emergency. The incumbent government receives eight per cent and the opposition even less. The lack of hostility exacerbates things, since how can justice be meted out when not a single law has been broken? To all intents and purposes the administration is blind. Who are the insurgents? Why the desire to destabilise the country? The authorities leap from one possibility to the next, but achieve nothing. In his new novel, Jos
Из серии: Vintage Classics 2007. Similarities to the plague of blindness that struck the city four years ago become apparent. |