Blindness by Jose Saramago

I've recently been reading a book called "Blindness" by Jose Saramago. It is about an epidemic of this disease that is known as the white evil, spreading from one person to many others. The government tries to stop this by putting them into quarantine, and from there it follows an eye doctor and his wife into a mental ward in quarantine. The doctor went blind after examining the first person afflicted by the disease, and his wife pretended to go blind so she could stay with her husband rather than have to separate from him. For some strange reason, the wife has not gone blind yet, even after spending at least a few weeks there (The narrator never gives any mention of how much time they have been in the ward, so this is just my guess based on how well acquainted everyone is with the inside of the ward, even blind). The doctor's wife has told no one but her husband that she is not blind yet, because not only does she not want to be at the beck and call of everyone, but she does not want people to think badly about her for lying about it for so wrong. But this does not mean that she does no work. In fact, she more or less leads all of the work done in the ward, to some extent.
Something a bit strange about this book is that there are no quotation marks throughout the entire book (when people talk, he adds commas and capitalizes the first letter to show that a new person is talking. It can get a bit confusing at times). There are many metaphors in this book, and he never fully explains the disease, because no one fully understands it. In some ways, the narrator is omnipotent, but in other ways, he is not. He can tell the thoughts of the people in the ward, but he is not able to explain anything that no one in the ward knows.
The nice thing about this book is not only does it show the big picture of the ward and the disease and everything related to it, but it also connects many people in the ward. The first blind man had his car stolen when he turned blind. The man who stole his car later became blind as well. Many patients of the doctors became blind as well, due to the disease spreading from the doctor before he went blind.
Though I have not finished this book yet, I can already say that it is a very good book, with a lot of not only specific but also general information to help me understand the plot.