Scottish artist receives hundreds of copies of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in the post
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People around the world have sent the book, with their personal stories, to Edinburgh for an installation to mark its publication 75 years agoCopies of George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four have been arriving at an artist’s studio in Edinburgh for months. Every shape and size, posted from Ukraine, Hong Kong, Peru, Germany, Cape Cod and Sarajevo.Some are in mint condition, others are dog-eared, tea-stained, heavily annotated or turned into graffitied art works. One is a...

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