It Is Better To Have Let Them Die Of Hunger Because When The Beast Dies - The Poison Dies With It - _________

(Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira, meaning Essay on Blindness) is a novel by Nobel-prize winning Portuguese author José Saramago. Blindness tells the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows.