Blind main characters

[shanaqui]

Can anyone recommend me books with blind main (or at least significant) characters? I think I know of one-and-a-half: Stephen Lawhead's Paradise War trilogy has Tegid, and in Ursula Le Guin's Gifts, Orrec is voluntarily and temporarily "blinded". I'd prefer books where the blindness isn't magically hand-waved away: it's real, and it gets in the way, and the protagonist learns to deal with it. I don't mind about being born blind, being blinded by violence or illness, or slowly going blind with age.

Comments

[shanaqui]

Thank you! I've been meaning to read something by Madeleine L'Engle someday, maybe this'll be what I choose.

[kyriacarlisle]

I'll admit that although a lot of L'Engle's books make me think, "Come on! Is anybody's family really this nice?!?" that might be me, not her - and in an odd way, I value them more for that.

And I feel a little silly suggesting this, but if you're including Greek tragedy: Oedipus at Colonus?

[shanaqui]

I hadn't thought about plays -- I've read that one! Hee.