Naomi Alderman is the recipient of the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction for The Power. She is also the author of The Liars' Gospel and Disobedience, which won the Orange Prize for New Writers, has been published in ten languages, and has been made into a film by Rachel Weisz.
Alderman was selected for Granta's once-a-decade list of Best of Young British Novelists and was chosen by Margaret Atwood as part of the Rolex Mentor and Prot�g� Arts Initiative. She is the cocreator and lead writer of the bestselling smartphone audio adventure app Zombies, Run! She contributes regularly to The Guardian and presents Science Stories on BBC Radio 4. She lives in London.
Praise for THE POWER: "Electrifying! Shocking! Will knock your
socks off! Then you'll think twice, about everything."--Margaret
Atwood
"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 Hunger Games crossed with The Handmaid's Tale."
--Cosmopolitan
"The Power is at once as streamlined as a 90-minute action film and
as weirdly resonant as one of Atwood's own early fictions...
Alderman has conducted a brilliant thought experiment in the nature
of power itself...Turning the world inside out, she reveals how one
of the greatest hallmarks of power is the chance to create a
mythology around how that power was used."--John Freeman, Boston
Globe
"A page-turning thriller and timely exploration of gender roles,
censorship and repressive political regimes, The Power is a
must-read for today's times."--Lauren Bufferd, BookPage
"A searing critique of how power is used in a world in which a
long-oppressed class can suddenly fight back."--Renay Williams,
Barnes & Noble Blog
"A suspenseful thrill ride filled with deep, contrasting female
leads on a scaffolding of philosophical questions about how
different men and women are at heart....Reminiscent of the work of
Alderman's mentor Margaret Atwood, The Power is perfect for book
clubs, where readers will undoubtedly debate the finer points of
nature versus nurture."--Jaclyn Fulwood, Shelf Awareness
"Alderman has the daring and good sense to eschew go-girl uplift in
favor of terrifying and complex dystopia."--Boris Kachka, Vulture/
New York Magazine
"Alderman has written our era's Handmaid's Tale, and, like Margaret
Atwood's classic, The Power is one of those essential feminist
works that terrifies and illuminates, enrages and
encourages....This book sparks with such electric satire that you
should read it wearing insulated gloves."--Ron Charles, Washington
Post
"Alderman's storytelling is visceral and brave; you'll stay up all
night reading after a thousand deals with the clock that you'll put
it down after just a few more pages. Gleeful, intelligent, clever,
and unflinching, The Power is the kind of book to keep a person
going."--Fiona Zublin, Ozy
"Alderman's tilted dystopia is a smartly layered place of slippery
slopes and moral ambiguities, a fitting folktale for strange
times."--Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly
"Alderman's writing is beautiful, and her intelligence seems almost
limitless. She also has a pitch-dark sense of humor that she wields
perfectly."--Michael Schaub, NPR
"An instant classic of speculative fiction... Smart, readable and
joyously achieved."
--Justine Jordan, Guardian
"Audaciously depict[s]...the most extreme results of a movement
that seeks rather than interrogates power: That if feminism has
become a means for domination, it has lost its way."--Bridget Read,
Vogue
"Bold and disturbing...it's not just a book of the moment. The
Power is a major innovation in the overlapping genres of feminist
dystopia/utopia, science fiction, and speculative fiction."--Elaine
Showalter, New York Review of Books
"By gleefully replacing the protocols of one gender with another,
Alderman has created a thrilling narrative stuffed with provocative
scenarios and thought experiments. The Power is a blast." --Suzi
Feay, Financial Times UK
"Fans of speculative fiction (see also: Margaret Atwood and Ben
Marcus) 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."--Sloane
Crosley, Vanity Fair
"Fierce and unsettling...Through immersive prose and a riveting
plot, Alderman explores how power corrupts everyone: those who gain
it, and those resisting its loss."--Radhika Jones, New York Times
Book Review
"Gripping and disturbing, it pushes the reader -- even the
confidently feminist reader -- to question the assumptions
underlying many of the mechanisms that drive relationships between
women and men."
--Harper's Bazaar UK
"I was riveted by every page. Alderman's prose is immersive and,
well, electric, and I felt a closed circuit humming between the
book and me as I read."--Amal El-Mohtar, New York Times Book
Review
"Ingenious....Deserves to be read by every woman (and, for that
matter, every man)."
--Francesca Steele, The Times UK
"Magnificent. I'm agog. I'm several gogs. Smart and scary and sad
but true. It's a classic, in the way that it's hard to imagine it
ever wasn't there."--Joss Whedon
"Narratively complex, philosophically searching, and gorgeously
rendered."--Lisa Shea, Elle
"Outstanding... Alderman imagines a world much like ours, with one
difference: teenage girls suddenly have the ability to electrocute
people. This is the perfect read if you've been itching for
something to get you through to season two of The Handmaid's
Tale."--Melissa Ragsdale, Bustle
"Please, please, PLEASE read Naomi Alderman's The Power. It'll
crack your brain open in all the right ways. Such an important,
timely book."
--Literary Death Match
"Richly imagined, ambitious, and propulsively written."--Sophie
Gilbert, The Atlantic
"The Power is stupendous. It's gorgeously written, endlessly
exciting, fun, and frightening."
--Ayelet Waldman, author of A Really Good Day
"This is a thriller that terrifies and leaves behind a lingering
tingle that's part discomfort and part exhilaration. Easy to read,
hard to put down, difficult to forget."--Cory Doctorow, Boing
Boing
"What starts out as a fantasy of female empowerment deepens and
darkens into an interrogation of power itself, its uses and abuses
and what it does to the people who have it... Alderman's breakout
work."
--Claire Armitstead, Guardian
"When we say that The Power is profoundly disturbing and you may
well want to argue with it as you read, we mean that in a good
way."
--SFX, Five Stars
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