{"product_id":"the-power-winner-of-the-women-s-prize-for-fiction","title":"The Power","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShe throws her head back and pushes her chest forward and lets go a huge blast right into the centre of his body. The rivulets and streams of red scarring run across his chest and up around his throat. She'd put her hand on his heart and stopped him dead.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt starts with a tingling in the fingers, a feeling of focus, of a change in the rhythm of the world, a pricking of the thumbs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePower is everywhere, it is under our feet, it circles around the cities and towns we have made our homes. We gather it and order it and make it flow from the centre outwards in a network like veins, pulsing with an electric heartbeat that keeps things functioning just as they always have. Yet power transfers and the time is coming for it to change hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat if the power to hurt were in women's hands?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eImagine a world where teenage girls awake one morning with extraordinary physical strength and power that outstrips their male counterparts. Thanks to a newly acquired section of muscle near their collarbone, young women can now conduct electricity like electric eels: inflicting pain or electrocuting to death as they wish. They can even waken this power in older women too. In Naomi Alderman’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Power\u003c\/em\u003e, the balance of the world is irrevocably altered overnight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe novel weaves four central points of view; that of Margot, the ruthlessly ambitious member of American government; Roxy, the somewhat gullible daughter of a London gangster; Tunde, a young Nigerian man who documents the worldwide change known as Day of the Girls; and Allie, a teenage runaway who becomes revered as a deity; through their experiences, we witness the ways in which women utilise their newfound dominance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis brave new world is far from a utopia however. As uprisings and revolts spread through the world and after the initial delight in female empowerment subsides, a darker side to the new world order emerges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExploring the concepts of gender, hierarchy and power, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Power\u003c\/em\u003e is an ingenious and masterfully crafted piece of feminist science fiction as well as a searing indictment of our contemporary world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Naomi Alderman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40327695696034,"sku":"9780670919963","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/products\/thepowercover.jpg?v=1637058057","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.pro\/products\/the-power-winner-of-the-women-s-prize-for-fiction","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}