Seeing

José Saramago's companion novel to Blindness, set in the same unnamed city some years later. On election day most voters hand in blank ballots, and the government, alarmed and suspicious, responds with growing heavy-handedness. With dry irony, the Portuguese Nobel laureate examines power, democracy and how the authorities react when citizens quietly refuse to play along. It can be read on its own. The text is in Persian (Farsi/Dari).

Author: José Saramago

Translator: جهان پورملکی

Persian title: بینایی

Bought from a Kabul bookshop and hand-delivered — the recipient inspects it at the door before accepting. The edition and cover may differ from the photo.