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Winston Smith and Julia join the underground opposition to the totalitarian government that would suffocate individuality.

In 1984, mechanic Julia Worthing, who works in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth, in one impulsive moment, sets in motion the devastating, unforgettable events of the classic story, in this imaginative, feminist and brilliantly relevant to-today journey through Orwell's now-iconic dystopia. London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing...

"En el a�no 1984 Londres es una ciudad l�ugubre en la que la Polic�ia del Pensamiento controla de forma asfixiante la vida de los ciudadanos. Winston Smith es un pe�on de este engranaje perverso, su cometido es reescribir la historia para adaptarla a lo que el Partido considera la versi�on oficial de los hechos ... hasta que decide replantearse la verdad del sistema que los gobierna y somete."--Amazon.

"Whoever controls our memories controls the future. Janelle Monae and an incredible array of talented collaborating creators have written a collection of tales comprising the bold vision and powerful themes that have made Monae such a compelling and celebrated storyteller. Dirty Computer introduced a world in which thoughts-as a means of self-conception-could be controlled or erased by a select few. And whether human, A.I., or other, your life and...

Since the Night of Endless Swords, a bloody battle the Kings of Sharakhai narrowly won, the kings have been hounding the rebels known as the Moonless Host. Many have been forced to flee the city, including Çeda, who discovers that the King of Sloth is raising his army to challenge the other kings' rule. When Çeda finds the remaining members of the Moonless Host, now known as the thirteenth tribe, she sees a tenuous existence. Çeda hatches a plan...

"Subversiva, inteligente y sumamente entretenida, Julia es una nueva versión de 1984 que va más allá de la conocida odisea de Winston Smith: nos muestra cómo es para las mujeres sobrevivir en el mundo del Gran Hermano, y ofrece un inesperado y brillante giro de guion al clásico de Orwell." -- Back cover.

In 1962 in America, slavery is legal again. Twenty years earlier the United States lost a war, and is now being occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.

"In a new world run by Topos, Inc., the United States of America only exists as a fading memory. On the path to utopia, the pillars of culture--religion, art, history, and science--have been decimated. The past is dead, and Topos killed it. Sixteen-year-old Ember remembers the day her parents were taken by Topos seven years ago. The only possession she has from them is a leather notebook containing the history of the world--contraband that could send...

Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities. In a bleak world where even thoughts are controlled by the Party, a minor bureaucrat tries to rebel.

"Thomas Brussig's classic German novel, now appearing for the first time in English, is a moving and miraculously comic story of life in East Berlin before the fall of the wall."-- Young Micha Kuppisch lives on the nubbin of a street, the Sonnenallee, whose long end extends beyond the Berlin Wall outside his apartment building. Like his friends and family, who have their own quixotic dreams--to secure an original English pressing of Exile on Main...