Sandra Newman

A PEOPLE Magazine Must-Read Book for Fall 2023 An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2023 A Guardian Biggest New Book of 2023 A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2023An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwell's 1984, from the point of view of Winston Smith's lover, Julia, by critically acclaimed novelist Sandra Newman.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.All her life, Julia has known only Oceania, and, until she meets Winston Smith, she has never imagined anything else. She is an ideal citizen: cheerfully cynical, always ready with a bribe, piously repeating every political slogan while believing in nothing. She routinely breaks the rules, but also collaborates with the regime when necessary. Everyone likes Julia.Then one day she finds herself walking toward Winston Smith in a corridor and impulsively slips him a note, setting in motion the devastating, unforgettable events of the classic story. Julia takes us on a surprising journey through Orwell's now-iconic dystopia, with twists that reveal unexpected sides not only to Julia, but to other familiar figures in the 1984 universe. This unique perspective lays bare our own world in haunting and provocative ways, just as the original did almost seventy-five years ago.

Femoghalvfjerds år efter udgivelsen af George Orwells banebrydende roman 1984 har Sandra Newman med godkendelse fra Orwells arvinger kastet sig over historien fra 1984 for at give den en dramatisk anderledes, feministisk vinkel, der er tro mod og kan stå ved siden af originalen. En roman til de millioner af læsere, der har læst og gyst ved tanken om det ultimativt totalitære system, som Orwell beskrev.London 1984, den tredje mest folkerige by i Oceanien. Julia Worthing arbejder som mekaniker, hun reparerer romanskrivningsmaskinerne i fiktionsafdelingen ved Ministeriet for Sandhed. Partiet og dets leder Big Brother regerer under ideologien INgSoc, og Julia er en mønsterborger, der trives i samfundet – muntert kynisk og uden tro på noget som helst, den politiske virkelighed interesserer hende ikke. Hun bryder reglerne, når det passer hende, men arbejder sammen med regimet, når det er nødvendigt. Alle kan lide Julia, der er et flittigt medlem af en anti-sex-gruppe, selvom hun i al hemmelighed er promiskuøs. Hun er dygtig til at navigere i en verden med konstant overvågning; nysprog, dobbelttænk, tankepoliti og børnespioner. Julia ved, hvordan man overlever.Men Julia bliver optaget af en kollega, der arbejder i ministeriets historiske afdeling, Winston Smith, da hun ser ham holde øjenkontakt med en overordnet under de to minutters Had. Da hun en dag kommer gående mod Winston i en gang, stikker hun ham hurtigt en seddel i hånden – en handling, der næsten er lig med selvmord – og det går op for hende, at hun er ved at miste grebet, at hun ikke længere kan navigere i verden.

Una brillante e imaginativa versi n feminista del cl sico de Orwell coincidiendo con el 75 aniversario de la primera publicaci n de 1984.Mejor Libro del A o 2023 seg n The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, Esquire, LitHub, People Magazine y Marie Claire.Airstrip One, Londres, a o 1984. Julia Worthing trabaja como mec nica en el Ministerio de la Verdad. Gobiernan el Partido y su l der, el Gran Hermano. Julia infringe las reglas con frecuencia, pero tambi n coopera con el r gimen cuando le conviene. Sabe c mo sobrevivir en un mundo de vigilancia constante. Pero cuando se siente intrigada por un colega, Winston Smith, todo a su alrededor se desmorona.Julia, nos muestra 1984 desde una nueva perspectiva. Subversiva, sagaz y tremendamente cautivadora, va m s all de la conocida historia de Winston Smith y ense a c mo es para las mujeres sobrevivir en el mundo feroz de Gran Hermano.Un viaje fascinante al totalitarismo de Orwell en 1984--The GuardianNewman no solo moderniza 1984, hace que sea esencial leerlo. -- Sunday TimesUna escritora poderosa e inteligente. Una novela maravillosamente escrita. ― The TimesNewman demuestra ser una digna sucesora de Orwell--Los Angeles TimesSubversiva. Inteligente. Y su final Oh, si s lo pudi ramos hablar del final --The Washington PostENGLISH DESCRIPTIONA PEOPLE Magazine Must-Read Book for Fall 2023 An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2023 A Guardian Biggest New Book of 2023 A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2023An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwell's 1984, from the point of view of Winston Smith's lover, Julia, by critically acclaimed novelist Sandra Newman.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.All her life, Julia has known only Oceania, and, until she meets Winston Smith, she has never imagined anything else. She is an ideal citizen: cheerfully cynical, always ready with a bribe, piously repeating every political slogan while believing in nothing. She routinely breaks the rules, but also collaborates with the regime when necessary. Everyone likes Julia.Then one day she finds herself walking toward Winston Smith in a corridor and impulsively slips him a note, setting in motion the devastating, unforgettable events of the classic story. Julia takes us on a surprising journey through Orwell's now-iconic dystopia, with twists that reveal unexpected sides not only to Julia, but to other familiar figures in the 1984 universe. This unique perspective lays bare our own world in haunting and provocative ways, just as the original did almost seventy-five years ago.

"a fascinating reflection on totalitarianism as refracted through Orwell's times and our own" The Guardian 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 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. But 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. Seventy-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 Nineteen Eighty-Four, here, finally, is a provocative, vital and utterly satisfying companion novel.

Julia is a bold feminist retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four that goes beyond Winston Smith's story to finally reveal what life in Oceania was like for women

The dazzling new novel from the acclaimed author of The Heavens asks: what if the price of a better world was losing the person you love?

From the author of The Heavens, a dazzling, mindbending novel in which all people with a Y chromosome mysteriously disappear from the face of the earthDeep 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. After the Disappearance, Jane forces herself to enter a world she barely recognizes, one where women must create new ways of living while coping with devastating grief. As people come together to rebuild depopulated industries and distribute scarce resources, Jane focuses on reuniting with an old college girlfriend, Evangelyne Moreau, leader of the Commensalist Party of America, a rising political force in this new world. Meanwhile, strange video footage called "The Men" is being broadcast online showing images of the vanished men marching through barren, otherworldly landscapes. Is this just a hoax, or could it hold the key to the Disappearance?From the author of The Heavens, The Men is a gripping, beautiful, and disquieting novel of feminist utopias and impossible sacrifices that interrogates the dream of a perfect society and the conflict between individual desire and the good of the community.

In 2009 it was How NOT to Write a Novel ('A hilarious, wickedly observed and deeply useful guide' Observer). In 2010 it's READ THIS NEXT - Sandra Newman and Howard Mittelmark have written the perfect book for anyone who has ever struggled to choose what to read next. But this is far more than a guide for book groups. Covering 600 books ranging from The Shock Doctrine to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and exploring all the important issues like how to tell the difference between Naomis Wolf and Klein, whether anyone really likes Emma Bovary, what makes a really good loo book and whether it's really wrong to marry for money, READ THIS NEXT reminds you exactly why you love reading and then makes you want to go out and read lots more. And what's more, it's very, very funny.

Explore ancient Greek civilization, its history, city-states, government, religion, arts, sciences, and warfare.A True Book: Ancient Civilizations series allows readers to experience what makes each ancient civilization distinctive and exceptional as well look at its influence on the some of the practices of the modern world. This series includes an age appropriate (grades 3-5) introduction to curriculum-relevant subjects and a robust resource section that encourages independent study.

When Chrysalis Moffat and her brother, Eddie, inherit a mansion on the coast of California, Eddie hatches a plan to fleece credulous Californians of their cash by starting the fraudulent Tibetan School of Miracles.But something else is happening. Through Chrysalis's reunion with her brother, she begins to discover her adoptive father's secret past, causing her own identity to unravel. As Chrysalis lays down the facts of her life, she gambles her identity against the contradictions, half-truths, and fables of her past, leading her ultimately to question what it is we can truly know and whether it is fate or chance that dictates our lives.

In the aftermath of a devastating plague, a fearless young heroine embarks on a dangerous and surprising journey to save her world in this brilliantly inventive thriller.In the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her nomadic tribe live off the detritus of a crumbled civilization. Theirs is a world of children; before reaching the age of twenty, they all die of a strange disease they call Posies--a plague that has killed for generations. There is no medicine, no treatment; only the mysterious rumor of a cure.When her brother begins showing signs of the disease, Ice Cream Star sets off on a bold journey to find this cure. Led by a stranger, a captured prisoner named Pasha who becomes her devoted protector and friend, Ice Cream Star plunges into the unknown, risking her freedom and ultimately her life. Traveling hundreds of miles across treacherous, unfamiliar territory, she will experience love, heartbreak, cruelty, terror, and betrayal, fighting to protect the only world she has ever known.A postapocalyptic literary epic as imaginative as The Passage and as linguistically ambitious as Cloud Atlas, The Country of Ice Cream Star is a breathtaking work from a writer of rare and unconventional talent.

In the aftermath of a devastating plague, a fearless young heroine embarks on a dangerous and surprising journey to save her world in this brilliantly inventive thriller.In the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her nomadic tribe live off the detritus of a crumbled civilization. Theirs is a world of children; before reaching the age of twenty, they all die of a strange disease they call Posies--a plague that has killed for generations. There is no medicine, no treatment; only the mysterious rumor of a cure.When her brother begins showing signs of the disease, Ice Cream Star sets off on a bold journey to find this cure. Led by a stranger, a captured prisoner named Pasha who becomes her devoted protector and friend, Ice Cream Star plunges into the unknown, risking her freedom and ultimately her life. Traveling hundreds of miles across treacherous, unfamiliar territory, she will experience love, heartbreak, cruelty, terror, and betrayal, fighting to protect the only world she has ever known.A postapocalyptic literary epic as imaginative as The Passage and as linguistically ambitious as Cloud Atlas, The Country of Ice Cream Star is a breathtaking work from a writer of rare and unconventional talent.

London, Esimese Lennuraja tähtsaim linn, Okeaania provintsidest rahvaarvu poolest kolmas. Aasta on 1984. Julia Worthing töötab mehhaanikuna Tõeministeeriumi belletristikaosakonnas, parandades romaanikirjutusmasinaid. Julia on ingsotsi ideoloogia ning Partei ja selle juhi Suure Venna valitsemise all musterkodanik - lustakalt küüniline, ei usu millessegi ja poliitikast ei hooli karvavõrdki. Ta oskab endal elu sees hoida maailmas, mida iseloomustavad pidev jälgimine, Mõttepolitsei, topeltmeel, lapsspioonid ja prolerajoonide letialune hangeldamine. Ellujäämine on tal käpas.Ent kui Julia pilku püüab kolleeg arhiiviosakonnast - välispartei kesktasandi töötaja Winston Smith -, taipab ta, et ei valitse enam oma tundeid ega ole suuteline maailmas ohutult manööverdama.Seitsekümmend viis aastat pärast seda, kui Orwell oma ikoonilisele romaanile punkti pani, on Sandra Newman Suure Venna maailma üliveenvalt taas esile mananud, pakkudes hoopis teistsugust, feministlikku narratiivi, mis jääb originaalile truuks ja võtab sisse koha selle kõrval. Orwelli kultusliku romaaniga "1984" üles kasvanud miljonitele lugejatele on viimaks valmis saanud provokatiivne, elujõust pulbitsev ja sügavat rahuldust pakkuv paralleelteos.Sandra Newmani (snd 1965) sulest on ilmunud "The Men" ("Mehed", eesti keeles 2023), aga ka naiskirjanduse auhinnale Women's Prize nomineeritud "The Country of Ice Cream Star", "The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done" (Guardiani debüütraamatu auhinna nominent), "Cake" ja "The Heavens". Ta on kirjutanud ka mälestusteraamatu "Changeling" ja ülieduka "How Not To Write A Novel". Newman on lõpetanud East Anglia Ülikooli loovkirjanduse programmi ning elab New Yorgis.

London - golovne misto Zlitnoji smugi Odin, tretoji za chiselnistju naselennja provintsiji Okeaniji. 1984 rik, Dzhulija Vorting pratsjuje mekhanikineju, jaka lagodit mashini dlja napisannja romaniv u viddili Khudlitu v Ministerstvi Pravdi. Zgidno z ideologijeju Angsotsu, pravlinnja partiji ta jiji lidera Velikogo Brata, Dzhulija je zrazkovoju gromadjankoju - zhittjeradisno-tsinichnoju, ni v scho ne virit i zovsim ne perejmajetsja politikoju. Vona reguljarno porushuje pravila, ale takozh spivpratsjuje z rezhimom, koli tse neobkhidno. Dzhuliju ljubljat usi, bo vona znaje, jak vizhiti u sviti postijnogo nagljadu Politsiji Dumok, ditej-shpiguniv i chornikh rinkiv proletarskikh rajoniv. Vona duzhe dobre vmije vizhivati.Ale Dzhuliju pochinaje intriguvati Vinston Smit - kolega z viddilu zapisiv i pratsivnik serednoji lanki Zovnishnoji Partiji. Odnogo dnja vona impulsivno pidsovuje jomu zapisku i usvidomljuje, scho vtrachaje kontrol i bilshe ne mozhe pochuvatisja u bezpetsi v tsomu sviti.Do uvagi: tvir mistit nenormativnu leksiku ta stseni, jaki mozhut zavdati diskomfortu chutlivim chitacham.PerekladachNata Gritsenko

The book is in RussianSandra Newman's sixth novel, Julia (2023), published by Granta in the UK and Mariner Books in the US, and written at the request of George Orwell's estate, revisits the events of the dystopian classic 1984 through the eyes of Winston Smith's love interest, Julia. The LA Times called the book "a stunning look into what happens when a person of strength faces the worst in humanity, as well as a perfect specimen of derivative art". The Financial Times called it "a richly envisaged, frightening dystopia, wholly alive to Orwell's text", while Erica Wagner dubbed it a "masterpiece" in The Telegraph.

Milline näeks välja maailm, kui sellest kaoksid ühekorraga kõik mehed - riigi- ja rekajuhid, armsamad ja isad, pojad ja vennad? USA hinnatud kirjaniku Sandra Newmani romaan "Mehed" on haarav ja mõtlemapanev poliitiline düstoopia. See mängib hüpoteetilise katastroofiga ja sunnib lugeja silmitsi seisma ebamugavate või suisa võimatute valikutega, küsides: millest oled sina valmis loobuma, et sünniks parem ja õiglasem maailm? Perega matkama läinud Jane Pearson ärkab mäejalamil ja leiab, et tema abikaasa ja poeg on kadunud. Keset kaosesse ja leina langenud maailma asub Jane otsima ainsat inimest, kellelt oskab abi loota - Evangelyne Moreau on karismaatiline Ameerika Kommensalistliku Partei juht, kellel on jõuline visioon uuest maailmakorrast. Sellal kui keerulise minevikuga Jane otsib kadunud lähedasi, hakkab kuju võtma radikaalselt teistsugune ühiskond, kus - vähemasti esmapilgul - on märksa turvalisem kui enne. Ja siis ilmub internetti "Mehed", kõhe videosari sellest, kuidas kummalised olendid karjatavad mehi mööda ebamaist maastikku. On see pettus või peitub "Meestes" tõesti võti, et kadunud inimesed tagasi tuua?