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The power : a novel / Naomi Alderman.
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- ISBN: 9780316547611 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 386 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First North American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
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| Subject: | Teenage girls > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Dystopian fiction. |
- Baker & Taylor
A rich Nigerian boy; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. When a vital new force takes root and flourishes, their lives converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls and women now have immense physical power-- they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And everything changes. - Baker & Taylor
In a novel of speculative fiction, an award-winning author contemplates a world where teenage girls now have immense physical powerâthey can cause agonizing pain and even death, drastically resetting the balance of the world. By the author ofThe Liars' Gospel . 25,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
When a new force takes hold of the world, people from different areas of life are forced to cross paths in an alternate reality that gives women and teenage girls immense physical power that can cause pain and death. - Grand Central Pub
In this stunning bestseller praised as "our era's Handmaid's Tale," a fierce new power has emerged'and only women have it (Washington Post).Â
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."Â 'New York Times Book Review - Grand Central Pub
In this stunning bestseller praised as "our era's Handmaid's Tale," a fierce new power has emergedâand only women have it (Washington Post).Â
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."Â âNew York Times Book Review
