Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart

George Orwell’s 1984 looms over the terrain of dystopian fiction as a kind of template for the idiom, the masterpiece that did more than any other work to pave the way for the current obsession with sociopolitical commentary in the guise of dark futuristic fable. Without Orwell as the role model—or perhaps 'big brother' is a better label?—we would never…