Tuesday Book Group In-Person
The Tuesday Book Group reads a mix of fiction and non-fiction and meets on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 2 PM.
This month we're reading Blindness by José Saramago.
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations, and assaulting women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides her charges—among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears—through the barren streets, and their procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. As Blindness reclaims the age-old story of a plague, it evokes the vivid and trembling horrors of the twentieth century, leaving readers with a powerful vision of the human spirit that's bound both by weakness and exhilarating strength.
Winner of Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.
Please register below. Held in the Rotary room on the lower level.
For more information, contact Ann Amaral at aamaral@newportlibraryri.org.
- Date:
- Tuesday, March 11, 2025 Show more dates
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 3:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Rotary Room
- Categories:
- Adults > Book Groups