George Bowling, forty-five, mortgaged, married with children, is an insurance salesman with an expanding waistline, a new set of false teeth - and a desperate desire to escape his dreary life. He fears modern times - since, in 1939, war is imminent - foreseeing food queues, soldiers, secret police and tyranny. So he decides to escape to the world of his childhood, to the village he remembers as a rural haven of peace and tranquility. But what will he find when he gets there?
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Fue novelista, periodista, crítico literario y articulista. Hoy se le considera uno de los mayores autores en lengua inglesa del siglo XX. Participó en la Guerra Civil española y formuló una dura crítica del estalinismo desde posiciones socialistas. Sus obras 1984 y Rebelión en la granja se han convertido en un referente histórico por su contundente oposición a los totalitarismos.