my friend told me i should read nineteen eighty-four book. Do you know anything about it?
It's a dystopian novel written by George Orwell.  Dystopian fiction is one of my favorite genres to read.
i like dystopian novels. can you tell me more about this book?
The setting is what was once Great Britain, in a country now called "Oceania" with always present government surveillance.
when was this book published?
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English writer George Orwell published in June 1949, whose themes centre on the risks of government overreach, totalitarianism and repressive regimentation of all persons and behaviours within society. The novel is set in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism and propaganda.
In the novel, Great Britain ("Airstrip One") has become
the novel, Fitzgerald summarizes the plot and his intentions in writing it, even referencing his own first novel, when a financially successful writer friend tells Anthony:
You know these new novels make me tired. My God! Everywhere I go some silly girl asks me if I've read "This Side of Paradise". Are our girls really like that? If it's true to life, which I don't believe, the next generation is going to the dogs. I'm sick of all this shoddy realism.