The Power: WINNER OF THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION - Rilegato

Alderman, Naomi

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ISBN 10: 0670919985 ISBN 13: 9780670919987

Casa editrice: Viking, 2016

Riassunto

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

What if the power to hurt were in women's hands?

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.

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Recensione:

The Hunger Games crossed with The Handmaid's Tale (Cosmopolitan)

Electrifying! Shocking! Will knock your socks off! Then you'll think twice, about everything (Margaret Atwood)

The Handmaid's Tale for the Gone Girl generation (Grazia)

A stone cold genius (Sarah Perry)

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)

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)

Thought-provoking novel (Glamour)

L'autore:

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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• Editore: Viking
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0670919985
• ISBN 13: 9780670919987
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 352