Bøger af Sandra Newman

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 feminist retelling, that goes beyond Winston Smith's story to finally reveal what life in Oceania was like for women.

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.

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

"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 Bro

"Deep 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? A gripping, beautiful, and disquieting novel of feminist utopias and impossible sacrifices, The Men interrogates the dream of a perfect society and the conflict between individual desire and the good of the community"--

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?

There they sit, the great tomes of classical literature, taunting you with their length and difficulty, as you ask: which books are the most important and why - and what's actually any good? Why does most writing about the classics have words like 'seminal' or 'oeuvre' in it? What does postmodernism mean? Can I get away with just reading the introduction?Now you can enjoy the classics without fear. This survival kit will guide you painlessly through the Western literary canon, century by century: from Ancient Greek drama to the modern novel, via Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Romantic poetry, Tolstoy and Proust. There are entertaining plot summaries, unpretentious definitions of literary movements and fresh insights into authors' lives. With each work assigned ratings from 1 to 10 on Importance, Accessibility and Fun, you'll discover what's really worth bothering with and what you can safely discard without guilt.This book will make the things you've read clearer, inspire you to tackle the ones you've always meant to and make you sound far cleverer than you really are.

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.

- Clean new design for easy readability and comprehension- Updated text presented in a lively, continuous narrative- New center-spread "sidebar" feature presenting material in a fun, creative way- Excellent age-appropriate introduction to curriculum-relevant subjects- "Important Words" glossary clarifies subject-specific vocabulary- "Resources" section encourages independent study- Index makes navigating subject matter easy