The Power By Naomi Alderman

Condition:  Like New

Format:    Paperback
Language:    English
ISBN:    0316547603
ISBN13:    9780316547604
Release Date:    January 2019
Publisher:    Back Bay Books
Length:    400 Pages
Weight:    0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:    1.1" x 5.5" x 8.1"

Book Overview

What if the power to reshape the world was in women’s hands... literally?

In The Power, Naomi Alderman crafts a bold and provocative speculative novel that imagines a sudden global shift: teenage girls develop the ability to emit electrical energy, capable of inflicting pain and even death. This new power, passed biologically from woman to woman, disrupts the traditional balance of gender and rewrites every structure political, social, and religious.

Told through the eyes of four interwoven characters a tough London girl rising through gang ranks, an ambitious American politician, a Nigerian journalist documenting the global transformation, and a traumatized foster child turned religious leader the story examines the rise of a new world order. As women across the globe awaken to their physical dominance, The Power explores the deep consequences of systemic reversal: Who holds power, and what do they do with it?

Winner of the 2017 Women’s Prize for Fiction and hailed as “electrifying” by critics, The Power is both a gripping dystopian thriller and a thought-provoking commentary on gender, authority, and the cyclical nature of oppression.