The Power

Aperçu

Échec de l'ajout au panier.

Veuillez réessayer plus tard

Échec de l'ajout à la liste d'envies.

Veuillez réessayer plus tard

Échec de la suppression de la liste d’envies.

Veuillez réessayer plus tard

Échec du suivi du balado

Ne plus suivre le balado a échoué

Essayer pour 0,00 $

Choisissez 1 livre audio par mois dans notre incomparable catalogue.

Écoutez à volonté des milliers de livres audio, de livres originaux et de balados.

L'abonnement Premium Plus se renouvelle automatiquement au tarif de 14,95 $/mois + taxes applicables après 30 jours. Annulation possible à tout moment.

The Power

Auteur(s): Naomi Alderman

Narrateur(s): Adjoa Andoh

Essayer pour 0,00 $

14,95$ par mois après 30 jours. Annulable en tout temps.

Acheter pour 37,28 $

À propos de cet audio

In this stunning best seller 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.

Dystopique

Fiction

Fiction de genre

Fiction littéraire

Post-apocalyptique

Récits initiatiques

Science-fiction

Ce que les critiques en disent

"Narrator Adjoa Andoh capably portrays an international cast of characters in this thrilling novel about the reshaping of the world when women develop powerful electrical abilities. Andoh makes the most of her vocal range, tone, and pacing, as well as an extensive catalogue of accents. The audio presentation particularly shines in the development of the character Allie into Mother Eve, especially in some scenes in which the Mother Eve persona drops and Allie speaks in her own voice." (AudioFile)

Les plus pertinents

Oh. My. Goddess. I haven't stopped talking about this book since I started listening to it! Every one of my female friends has been pestered thoroughly to pick it up.

What would the world look like if women were the more powerful gender? If men's opinions and physicality were valued less? If they were the ones vulnerable to exploitation? So often, we hypothesize that a matriarchy would be a gentler society, free of rape and full of empathy. Naomi Alderman confronts this Utopian vision and then grinds it under the heel of science fiction.

Beginning with teenage girls acquiring the electrical powers, the shift initially seems positive. They can defend themselves from those who would hurt them: rapists, kidnappers, abusers. I reveled in the first part of the book, imagining a world like The Power's. But then the change continues and all men begin to fear for their lives. The power imbalance flips and now women are performing horrifying acts of violence on the other gender. I found myself a little disgusted with myself, to have enjoyed the first part of the book's thought-experiment. I think this is what Alderman intended, to show how easily one can believe that dominance is deserved.

I really enjoyed the framing device the book employed, especially visits to the "artifacts" of the world before. I highly recommend this book to all, with the caveat that it may make you uncomfortable (as any truly good speculative fiction should.) Additional trigger warning for depictions of sexual assault and violence.

I had previously listened to Adjoa Andoh read Americanah and I loved her performance on both books.