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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).
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." —New York Times Book Review
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“Fans of speculative fiction about empowered youth will be struck by Alderman’s speedy and thorough inhabitation of a world just different enough from ours to jolt the imagination. Mothers, lock up your boys.”
— Vanity Fair
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“The Hunger Games crossed with The Handmaid’s Tale."
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“Narratively complex, philosophically searching, and gorgeously rendered.”
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"The Power is our era’s The Handmaid’s Tale."
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“[Alderman’s] writing is beautiful, and her intelligence seems almost limitless. She also has a pitch-dark sense of humor that she wields perfectly.”
— NPR
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Winner of the 2017 Baileys’ Women’s Prize for Fiction
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A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
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A New York Times bestseller
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A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2017
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A Washington Post Top 10 Book of 2017
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An NPR Best Book of the Year
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An Entertainment Weekly Best Books of the Year selection
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A Bustle Pick of Best Books of 2017
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A Paste Magazine Pick of 2017
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A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2017
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About Naomi Alderman
Naomi Alderman is the bestselling author of several books, including The Power, which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction and was chosen as a book of the year by the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times and was recommended as a book of the year by both Barack Obama and Bill Gates. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University.
About Naomi Alderman
Adjoa Andoh is an Audie Award and Earphones Award–winning narrator and an actress of British film, television, stage, and radio. In 2022, she was awarded the AudioFile Golden Voice Award. She is known on the UK stage for lead roles at the RSC, the National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre, and the Almeida Theatre, and she is a familiar face on British television. She made her Hollywood debut starring as Nelson Mandela’s chief of staff, Brenda Mazikubo, alongside Morgan Freeman as Mandela in Clint Eastwood’s Invictus.