The Power Synopsis
THE ICONIC BESTSELLING NOVEL, WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE, AND NOW AMAZON TV SERIES STARRING TONI COLLETTE AND AULI?I CRAVALHO
'She throws her head back and pushes her chest forward and lets go a huge blast right into the centre of his body. The rivulets and streams of red scarring run across his chest and up around his throat. She'd put her hand on his heart and stopped him dead.'
Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death. With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of Naomi Alderman's extraordinary, visceral novel are utterly transformed, and we look at the world in an entirely new light.
What if the power to hurt were in women's hands?
'Electrifying' Margaret Atwood
'A big, brash, page-turning, thought-provoking thriller' Guardian
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780241547953 |
| Publication date: |
30th March 2023 |
| Author: |
Naomi Alderman |
| Publisher: |
Viking an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
352 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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