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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 routinely breaks the rules but also collaborates with the regime whenever necessary. Everyone likes Julia.

Jane Pearson is camping with her husband Leo and their five-year-old son Benjamin, deep in the California woods on an evening in late August. At the moment that she drifts to sleep outside the tent where Leo and Benjamin are preparing for bed, every single person with a Y chromosome vanishes from the world, disappearing from operating theatres 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.

New York, 2000. Kate and Ben meet at a party and fall instantly, irrevocably in love. Around them, the city glows. It is the first year without a war anywhere. A woman is president, and an air of camaraderie permeates the streets of Manhattan. Kate falls asleep, knowing she is loved. London, 1593. Kate wakes as Emilia - the mistress of a nobleman - and finds the plague at her door. Afflicted by premonitions of a burnt and lifeless city, she sets out to save the world. Each decision she makes will change her life with Ben forever.

Julia nos leva a uma viagem surpreendente pela agora icônica distopia de Orwell, com reviravoltas que revelam lados inesperados, não apenas de Julia, mas de outras figuras familiares do universo de 1984.

In the ruins of a future America, 15-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 20, 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.

Host Catherine Nichols and guests choose one book for each year of the twentieth century (Nella Larsen's Passing, 1936, Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, 1966; Mohandas Gandhi's Indian Home Rule, 1909) and talk about it in its historical and literary context. Tune in to find out what the 20th century was all about.

Mit seinem berühmten Roman "1984" gelang George Orwell eine visionäre Dystopie über eine Welt der totalen Überwachung. Nun wird dieser Klassiker zu ganz neuem Leben erweckt - und aus der Sicht der weiblichen Hauptfigur erzählt. Die gewitzte Mechanikerin Julia hat längst ihre ganz eigenen Strategien entwickelt, um in dem unmenschlichen Überwachungssystem zu überleben. Doch dann verliebt sie sich in Winston, und damit gerät alles aus den Fugen. Dieser eigentümliche Mann gibt Julia immer wieder Rätsel auf, und sollte ihre Liebe auffliegen, könnte sie das ihr Leben kosten.

UNA DE LAS NOVELAS MÁS ESPERADAS DEL AÑO SEGÚN THE GUARDIAN, THE IRISH TIMES Y DAILY MAIL ¿A qué estaríamos dispuestos a renunciar para crear un mundo mejor? Un libro cuya inquietante imaginación atraviesa la página y no nos suelta hasta el final. 26 de agosto, 7.14 de la mañana: Jane Pearson amanece ante un mundo radicalmente distinto, uno en el que todos los hombres han desaparecido, incluidos su hijo y su marido. Mientras los busca sin perder la esperanza de traerlos de vuelta, ante ella surge una sociedad nueva, mejor, más feliz y segura que la anterior.