The Power Synopsis
In this stunning bestseller that inspired the Amazon Prime series, praised as "our era's Handmaid's Tale," a fierce new power has emerged-and only women have it (Washington Post).
In The Power, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family.
But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power: they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets. From award-winning author Naomi Alderman, The Power is speculative fiction at its most ambitious and provocative, at once taking us on a thrilling journey to an alternate reality, and exposing our own world in bold and surprising ways.
"Captivating, fierce, and unsettling...I was riveted by every page. Alderman's prose is immersive and, well, electric." -New York Times Book Review
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780316547604 |
| Publication date: |
8th January 2019 |
| Author: |
Naomi Alderman |
| Publisher: |
Back Bay Books an imprint of Little, Brown and Company |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
400 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Dystopian and utopian fiction
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Naomi Alderman Press Reviews
'The Handmaid's Tale for the Gone Girl generation' Grazia
'A stone cold genius' -- Sarah Perry
'The Hunger Games crossed with The Handmaid's Tale' Cosmopolitan
'The Power is a subtly funny, lyrical and utterly subversive vision of an impossible future. As all the best visionaries do, Alderman shines a penetrating and yet merciful light on to our present and the so many cruelties in which we may be complicit' -- A. L. Kennedy
'Electrifying! Shocking! Will knock your socks off! Then you'll think twice, about everything' -- Margaret Atwood
'The Power is a fascinating look at what the world might be like if millennia of sexism went the other way...as a whole the narrative feels ingenious...deserves to be read by every woman (and, for that matter, every man)' The Times
'A feminist science-fiction story that's about to make waves' Red
'If you enjoy Margaret Atwood's dystopian fiction, this strong, substantial novel is for you' Woman & Home
'Alderman is a fluent and powerful writer' Sunday Times
About Naomi Alderman
Naomi Alderman was born in 1974 and was brought up in the Orthodox Jewish community in Hendon, London, where she now lives. She is a graduate of the UEA creative writing course and has published short fiction in a number of anthologies.
Naomi Alderman won the Orange Award for New Writers in 2006 and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award in 2007.
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