Julia by Sandra Newman: a vibrant retelling of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
Julia offers contemporary readers new ways of thinking about Orwell’s novel.
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Julia offers contemporary readers new ways of thinking about Orwell’s novel.
PETER HITCHENS: Is George Orwell about to be cancelled? This gaunt, scruffy Old Etonian has been a grave nuisance to the Left now for more than 80 years.
For those trapped behind the Iron Curtain, Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four seemed more a documentary than a work of dystopian fiction. How did a man who had never traveled to communist Russia get so much so right?
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Sandra Newman’s Juliahas a connoisseur’s nose for body odour. When she gets close to another person or animal, she almost always notices their smell – manly, dusty, dungy, a hint of talcum powder. When she suppresses emotion, she sweats. She sprains her wrist and tears rise ‘of themselves like sweat’. In a pivotal scene, she