Books like Seeing
The sequel to Blindness: the city holds an election where every ballot is cast blank, and the government's response reveals that democracy's greatest threat is its own defenders.
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Death with Interruptions
On New Year's Day in an unnamed country, death stops killing, and as the old fail to die, the funeral industry collapses and the church panics, until death returns with new rules.
The Cave
An ageing potter loses his only customer, a vast shopping and residential Center, and moves inside it with his family, where an excavation beneath the building uncovers something straight out of Plato.
Penguin Island
A short-sighted abbot mistakes a colony of great auks for people and baptises them, and heaven has to turn them into humans; their history then follows France's from Charlemagne to the Dreyfus affair.
Glory
In the animal kingdom of Jidada, the Old Horse who has ruled for decades is overthrown by his own deputy, and Destiny, a young goat back from exile, watches what happens next.
Mario and the Magician
On holiday at an Italian seaside resort in the late 1920s, a German family goes to the show of Cipolla, a hunchbacked hypnotist who bends his audience to his will.
Shame
In a country that is and is not Pakistan, two feuding politicians' families are bound by marriage to a girl whose blushes of shame turn into violence.
The Plague
When plague strikes the Algerian city of Oran, the town is sealed off, and Dr Rieux and a handful of others fight the epidemic, in a parable about how people behave when catastrophe strips away pretence.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
A prophet comes down from ten years alone on a mountain, convinced that God is dead, to teach the crowds that humanity is something to be overcome, in a book of speeches, parables and songs.
The Intuitionist
When an elevator crashes on her watch, the first Black woman in the city's Department of Elevator Inspectors hunts for a lost blueprint of the perfect elevator to clear her name.
Simpatía
A film writer in a collapsing Caracas inherits his father-in-law’s mansion on the condition that he turn it into a shelter for the dogs the exiled middle class has left behind.
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
In a Nigeria lightly fictionalised, a surgeon and his oldest friend, an engineer about to take up a post at the United Nations, discover that someone is trafficking in body parts from the hospital.
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
A nameless railway clerk resists corruption in post-independence Ghana.