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1) Blindness
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A city is ravaged by an epidemic of 'white blindness.' Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where societal norms quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hording the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. Inside the hospital is one eyewitness to the nightmare. Following her husband into the hospital, a woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague...
2) Ya veremos
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A boy makes a list of places to visit and things to see after learning that he could lose his eyesight. To fulfill his dreams, his estranged parents agree to come together and take their son on an adventurous and wacky journey of discovery.
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Una epidemia de ceguera golpea una ciudad y el resultado es el caos, el gobierno emite órdenes de disparar a matar. Gran parte de la acción se ve a través de los ojos de una mujer que dice ser ciega para no ser separada de su marido. Una mirada a cómo se comportan las personas bajo estrés. Por el autor de La Historia del Sitio de Lisboa.
An epidemic of blindness strikes a city and the result is chaos, the government issuing shoot-to-kill orders....
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Annie spends her days cooking with her grandmother and, although she can't see, she has the gift of being able to feel other people's deepest emotions. She brings those emotions to life with her magical cooking, which helps the townspeople overcome their physical and emotional ailments. But one day, Annie meets someone who awakens a boundless affection in her and who will introduce her senses to a completely unknown world.
Ana pasa las tardes entre...
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Un pintor a punto de quedar ciego se encuentra de manera fortuita con una joven en un burdel en el desierto mexicano. Dos vidas distantes pero paralelas se entretejen con sorprendentes vueltas del destino.
Homero is a painter. Mei is a young girl who has been abandoned by her mother at a brothel. Homero has a difficult time accepting the fact that he is going blind from an inherited condition. He visits his father, who is blind from the same condition,...
7) Marianela
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Nueva biblioteca didáctica volume 7
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"Marianela es una joven pobre, deforme y menospreciada por todo el mundo. Sólo encuentra consuelo y un hombro en el que apoyarse en Pablo, el hijo ciego del dueño de las minas de Socartes, a quien la desdichada muchacha hace las veces de lazarillo. Sus paseos y sus conversaciones devienen en un lazo que parece inquebrantable, y Pablo promete a Nela casarse algún día con ella. Sin embargo, la posibilidad de un remedio para su ceguera hará tambalear...
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