1984

In the superstate of Oceania, Winston Smith rewrites the past for the Ministry of Truth while Big Brother watches every screen and every face. He begins to keep a diary, then falls in love with Julia, two acts that the Party counts as crimes. Their secret leads them towards a resistance they cannot verify and an interrogator who knows them better than they know themselves. Orwell builds a world in which language itself is redesigned so that certain thoughts can no longer be formed. A novel about surveillance, memory and the last freedom — the freedom to say that two and two make four.