検索キーワード： "Sandra Newman" 大衆小説

Julia nos leva a uma viagem surpreendente pela agora icônica distopia de Orwell, com reviravoltas que revelam lados inesperados, não apenas de Julia, mas de outras figuras familiares do universo de 1984.

Deep in the California woods on an evening in late August, Jane Pearson is camping with her husband, Leo, and their five-year-old son, Benjamin. As dusk sets in, she drifts softly to sleep in a hammock strung outside the tent where Leo and Benjamin are preparing for bed. At that moment, every single person with a Y chromosome vanishes around the world, disappearing from operating theaters mid-surgery, from behind the wheels of cars, from arguments and acts of love. Children, adults, even fetuses are gone in an instant. Leo and Benjamin are gone. No one knows why, how, or where.

Julia Worthing is a mechanic, working in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. It’s 1984, and Britain (now called Airstrip One) has long been absorbed into the larger trans-Atlantic nation of Oceania. Oceania has been at war for as long as anyone can remember, and is ruled by an ultra-totalitarian Party, whose leader is a quasi-mythical figure called Big Brother. In short, everything about this world is as it is in Orwell’s 1984.

London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Under the ideology of IngSoc and the rule of the Party and its leader Big Brother, Julia is a model citizen - cheerfully cynical, believing in nothing and caring not at all about politics. She routinely breaks the rules but also collaborates with the regime whenever necessary. Everyone likes Julia.

Jane Pearson is camping with her husband Leo and their five-year-old son Benjamin, deep in the California woods on an evening in late August. At the moment that she drifts to sleep outside the tent where Leo and Benjamin are preparing for bed, every single person with a Y chromosome vanishes from the world, disappearing from operating theatres mid-surgery, from behind the wheels of cars, from arguments and acts of love. Children, adults, even fetuses are gone in an instant. Leo and Benjamin are gone. No one knows why, how, or where.

Mit seinem berühmten Roman "1984" gelang George Orwell eine visionäre Dystopie über eine Welt der totalen Überwachung. Nun wird dieser Klassiker zu ganz neuem Leben erweckt - und aus der Sicht der weiblichen Hauptfigur erzählt. Die gewitzte Mechanikerin Julia hat längst ihre ganz eigenen Strategien entwickelt, um in dem unmenschlichen Überwachungssystem zu überleben. Doch dann verliebt sie sich in Winston, und damit gerät alles aus den Fugen. Dieser eigentümliche Mann gibt Julia immer wieder Rätsel auf, und sollte ihre Liebe auffliegen, könnte sie das ihr Leben kosten.