Seeing: A rain-soaked election, 70 percent blank ballots, and a panicked government's descent into paranoia and menace
by Margaret Jull Costa, José Saramago
When 70 percent of ballots are returned blank in a rain-soaked election, a government faces a crisis it cannot explain. Suspicion spreads through its institutions, and official responses grow increasingly paranoid and menacing. José Saramago’s provocative political fiction examines authority, fear, and the unsettling power of collective silence.
About This Book
A rain-soaked election produces an extraordinary result: 70 percent of ballots are blank.
Confronted with this unsettling expression of public choice, the government responds with growing anxiety and suspicion.
As paranoia deepens, political authority turns toward menace in an increasingly tense and disquieting story.
Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, this work is by José Saramago.
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