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Naomi Alderman

The Power


Winner of the 2017 Bailess women´s prize for fiction
2017. 352 p. 198 mm
Verlag/Jahr: PENGUIN UK; VIKING 2017
ISBN: 0-670-91996-9 (0670919969)
Neue ISBN: 978-0-670-91996-3 (9780670919963)

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Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - teenage 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.
WINNER OF THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN´S PRIZE FOR FICTION
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA´S BEST BOOKS OF 2017

´Electrifying´ Margaret Atwood

´A big, page-turning, thought-provoking thriller´ Guardian

All over the world women are discovering they have the power.
With a flick of the fingers they can inflict terrible pain - even death.
Suddenly, every man on the planet finds they´ve lost control.

The Day of the Girls has arrived - but where will it end?

´The Hunger Games crossed with The Handmaid´s Tale´ Cosmopolitan

´Superb. Insightful, thrilling, funny. Well-crafted, compelling, serious-minded´ Daily Telegraph

´Fascinating, ingenious, rattles with a furious pace. Deserves to be read by every woman (and, for that matter, every man)´ The Times

´Irresistible. Holds a mirror up to the here and now´ Mail on Sunday

´Chilling, thrilling, a blast´ Financial Times

´A shocking, thrill-a-minute story´ Observer
It´s magnificent. I´m agog. Really, I´m several gogs. So smart and scary and sad but true Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Alderman, Naomi
Naomi Alderman is the author of four novels. In 2006 she won the Orange Award for New Writers and in 2007 she was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, as well as being selected as one of Waterstones´ 25 Writers for the Future. All of her novels have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4´s Book at Bedtime. In 2013 she was selected for the prestigious Granta Best of Young British Writers. She lives in London.