{"product_id":"julia-by-sandra-newman-9781783789160","title":"Julia","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A fascinating reflection on totalitarianism as refracted through Orwell's times and our own.\"\u003c\/em\u003e The Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLondon, 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 knows how to survive in a world of constant surveillance, Thought Police, Newspeak, Doublethink, child spies, and the black markets of the prole neighbourhoods. She's very good at staying alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut Julia becomes intrigued by a colleague from the Records Department—a mid-level worker of the Outer Party called Winston Smith. She comes to realise that she's losing her grip and can no longer safely navigate her world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSeventy-five years after Orwell finished writing his iconic novel, Sandra Newman has tackled the world of Big Brother in a truly convincing way, offering a dramatically different, feminist narrative that is true to and stands alongside the original. For the millions of readers who have been brought up with Orwell's \u003cem\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/em\u003e, here, finally, is a provocative, vital, and utterly satisfying companion novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46531763077356,"sku":"9781783789160","price":26.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781783789160.jpg?v=1749525270","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/julia-by-sandra-newman-9781783789160","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}