The Power

10 hrs. 57 min.

Language Russian

Author Naomi Alderman

Narrator Yulia Yablonskaya

Description

Naomi Alderman’s “The Power” is a striking dystopian novel about female strength.

What would happen to the world if women suddenly became physically stronger than men? Now men are the weaker sex. And everything changes: ideas about gender, strength, weakness, rights, duties, and decency; the structure of power and geopolitical arrangements. These changes—along with the whole world—are experienced first-hand by a preacher of a new religion, the daughter of a London gangster, a Nigerian stringer, and an American official with political ambitions.

“The Power” by Naomi Alderman is a sharp-witted and clear-eyed, even brutally honest story about exactly how the world will change if the balance of power by gender is simply flipped upside down. It’s a novel about the nature of power and what it does to people.