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Sandra Newman: Julia: A Novel (Paperback, 2023, Granta Books)

An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwell’s 1984, from the point of view …

uncomfortably real and worthwhile

A thorough re-shaping of 1984, the fear and hate in authoritarian distrust remains centered from this more sympathetic and capable and resourceful perspective, with welcome nuance and complications as hope and care slip in and out of reach.