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Place of birth: Australia

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1984 by George Orwell

Winston lives in a bleak, totalitarian world where his job is to rewrite newspaper articles to support present political propaganda. He has no joy and no love. His world is grimy, regimented, and callously violent. His conversations with other people are functional remarks or rituals of allegiance to Big Brother and the Party. Armed with ubiquit...

10.0/10

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Blindness by Jose Saramago

An illness spreads through an unnamed city. It has only one symptom: blindness. It comes without fanfare, pain, or warning. One moment a man waits in his car at the traffic lights, the next his world has dissolved to white.What follows is a riveting portrayal of the best and worst of human nature.If Orwell’s 1984 was the horr...

9.4/10

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