![]() ![]() The jump in popularity in Orwell’s works come amid fears of censorship and diminishing civic freedoms in Hong Kong amid a Beijing-led crackdown on political dissent in the city under a national security law imposed last summer. ![]() ![]() The most borrowed book on the list was ‘ The Five People You Meet in Heaven‘ by the American author, Mitch Albom. Orwell had written the two books to warn of the rise authoritarian states after World War II. Photo: British Library.Īnimal Farm is a satirical political fable featuring animals who overthrow their human overlord only to become the same tyrants themselves. The two novels had ranked 11th and 12th in 2018. The two works also grew in popularity among English readers, with Animal Farm being the third-most popular English fiction book and 1984 ranking ninth on the list. ![]() Orwell’s political novella Animal Farm, meanwhile, jumped over thirty places from 46th to 13th this year. It envisions a future in which a dictatorship monitors and controls the actions of all its citizens. In the novel, citizens under the watchful eye of an all-powerful “Big Brother” practise a reflexive form of self-censorship called “doublethink” and talk in “newspeak,” a language carefully controlled by the state. The literary work most often mentioned alongside Animal Farm is Orwell’s own 1984. Orwell novels leap in popularity on 'Top 100 Most Borrowed Books' in Hong Kong - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP Closeġ984 is a dystopian novel set in a society heavily repressed under a regime of pervasive state surveillance, propaganda and censorship. ![]()
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