The Power: WINNER OF THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
Pressestimmen 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)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) Buchrückseite WINNER OF THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION'Electrifying' Margaret Atwood'A big, page-turning, thought-provoking thriller' GuardianAll 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? Über den Autor und weitere Mitwirkende Naomi Alderman is the author of three previous novels: Disobedience, The Lessons and The Liars' Gospel. She has won the Orange Award for New Writers and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. She was selected for Granta's once-a-decade list of Best of Young British Novelists and Waterstones Writers for the Future. She presents Science Stories on BBC Radio 4, she is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and she is the co-creator and lead writer of the bestselling smartphone audio adventure app Zombies, Run!. She lives in London.
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