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The Power

By Naomi Alderman
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The Power by Naomi Alderman explores a world transformed when teenage girls develop the ability to generate immense physical power, including causing pain and death. The story follows diverse characters—a rich Nigerian boy, a foster child with secretive religious parents, an ambitious American politician, and a resilient London girl—as their lives intersect in this drastically changed society. Alderman crafts a provocative and thrilling speculative fiction narrative that challenges our perceptions of power and gender.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This thought-provoking novel will appeal to readers of speculative fiction and those interested in feminist themes, social change, and gripping alternate realities.

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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 agonising 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

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780316547604

Publisher: Little, Brown Paperbacks

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 January 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Little, Brown Paperbacks

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 206.0mm

Weight: 340g

Pages: 400

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Dystopian Fiction Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Naomi Alderman Sci-Fi & Fantasy Science Fiction

About the Author

Naomi Alderman is the recipient of the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction for The Power. She is also the author of The Liars' Gospel and Disobedience, which won the Orange Prize for New Writers, has been published in ten languages, and has been made into a film by Rachel Weisz.

Alderman was selected for Granta's once-a-decade list of Best of Young British Novelists and was chosen by Margaret Atwood as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. She is the cocreator and lead writer of the bestselling smartphone audio adventure app Zombies, Run! She contributes regularly to The Guardian and presents Science Stories on BBC Radio 4. She lives in London.

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