![]() ![]() A police superintendent is put on the case. ![]() ![]() Perhaps she is the one behind the blank ballots. But are the authorities acting blindly? The word evokes terrible memories of the plague of blindness that hit the city four years before, and of the one woman who kept her sight. In response to this mass act of rebellion, a state of emergency is declared. But when the ballots are counted, more than 70 percent are blank. Voters promptly rush to the polling stations, as if they had been ordered to appear. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o’clock, the rain finally stops. On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote. A strange protest triggers a descent into paranoia and chaos in this “illuminating parable”-a sequel to the Nobel Prize-winning author’s Blindness (Ursula K. ![]()
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