During the municipal elections of a nameless city, the majority of its population decides individually to exercise their right to vote unexpectedly. The government fears thet this revolutionary gesture, able to undermine the foundation of a degenerating democracy, being a product of the conspiracy of international anarchists or unknown extremist groups. The sewers of power are set in motion: The guilty must be eliminated. And if they are not found, they are made up.
The main characters of this new novel of Saramango, a police inspector and the woman who kept her eyesight in the white light epidemic of essay about blindness, show the moral hight that anonymous citizens can reach when they decide to use their freedom.
Saramago, a writter who has become the clear conscience of an time blinded by the mechanisms of the power, sends a alerting call: <It may happen that one
day we have to ask who has signed this for me>. that day can be today.
Publicado el: noviembre 07, 2005
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