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

[lferion]

Ellen Kushner's 'Swordspoint' and 'Priviledge of the Sword' (Main character in the first book, secondary but very important in the second. He doesn't start out blind.

Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles - particularly Pawn in Frankincense, Ringed Castle and Checkmate - but one should really read them all for the second half to make complete sense.

[shanaqui]

I forgot Swordspoint! It's been so long since I read it. I loved that, I had no idea about it until I got there and it was an interesting surprise.

Ooh, I have those on my to read list.

Thank you!