For 10 points, name this novel about an epidemic of the title "white sickness" by Jose Saramago.
Upon returning to her old apartment building, a former prostitute in this novel encounters an old woman who subsists on raw hens and cabbage. One character in this novel is killed when he is kicked in the thigh with a stiletto heel by a woman whose breast he fondled. That character in this novel helps a man back to his house, only to steal his car afterwards. An unnamed old man with an eyepatch owns a radio in this novel. Female sex slaves are demanded as payment for food rations by the head of Ward Three, before he is stabbed in the neck with scissors by one character in this novel. The government forces characters like the girl with dark glasses and an opthalmologist and his wife into a compound at this novel's start, after a man doesn't move at a stoplight. For 10 points, name this novel about an epidemic of the title "white sickness" by Jose Saramago.
Upon returning to her old apartment building, a former prostitute in this novel encounters an old woman who subsists on raw hens and cabbage.
Blindness [or Ensayo sobre a cigueira]