Naomi Alderman – författare

VINNARE: WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017!

»En fantastisk berättelse om de möjligabrutala effekterna av en matriarkal revolution.« Aftonbladet Kultur

På ytan är allt som vanligt. En nigeriansk dotter som slöar i familjens pool. En barnhemsflicka, vars religiösa föräldrar döljer sin sanna natur. En amerikansk lokalpolitiker. En okammad Londontjej med trasslig bakgrund. Men något är annorlunda. Något som får deras liv att smälta samman med förödande resultat. En mäktig, märklig kraft slår rot i världen och ger tonårsflickor monumental fysisk styrka. En styrka som kan skapa fruktansvärd smärta och död. En liten justering av verkligheten, och en hel värld sätts i gungning. Makten är en spektakulär, prisbelönt roman - ambitiös, skarp och provocerande - som tar med läsaren till en alter­nativ verklighet där kvinnor styr, och som samtidigt kastar ljus över villkoren för allas våra egna, begränsade liv. En internationell TV-serie byggd på boken är planerad. I svensk översättning av Helena Ridelberg.

NAOMI ALDERMAN [f.1974] är en brittisk författare och professor i kreativt skrivande. Makten, hennes fjärde roman, har blivit en enorm sälj- och kritikersuccé, och var en av de tre bäst säljande romanerna i Storbritannien 2017. Barack Obama har nämnt den som en av sina favoritböcker 2017, den valdes till en av årets bästa böcker i bland annat, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly och på Amazon, och tilldelades det prestigefyllda Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017.

»Årets bok för alla feminister. Kvinnorna har makten. Könsmaktsordningen är omkastad.« | Maria Ehrenberg, Kristianstadsbladet

»Jag har aldrig sett den rådande ordningen vändas upp och ner på ett så förkrossande sätt som i Makten. En omedelbar klassiker.« | The Guardian

»Elektrifierande! Chockerande! Kommer att knocka dig! Sen kommer du att tänka efter en gång extra om allt.« | Margaret Atwood

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The highly-anticipated audacious new novel from the Women's Prize-winning author of The Power.

Alderman has gone from promising young author to publishing phenomenon, a writer gifted with the double Midas touch of commercial success and literary prestige' Sunday Times

'What a glowing, remarkable, brilliant gift of a book!' Laurie Frankel, author of This Is How It Always Is and Enormous Wings

'It is the genius of Naomi Alderman to embed a smart and thought-provoking meditation inside a page-turner of a book' Karen Joy-Fowler on The Future

They had come from nowhere, and now they were everywhere

A few months after her mother dies, the novelist Naomi Alderman sets up a wildlife camera in the back garden of her parents home. It captures the first image of a strange new animal. Low to the ground, about the size of a badger, flat face, long trunk-like nose. Suddenly these mimmoths are as common as foxes or dogs. And no one knows where they ve come from.

As Alderman negotiates the territory of grief a place with its own logic and rhythms the mimmoths spread. From the UK east and west, to the United States, to Russia, to India. They seem harmless, but oddly intelligent. They cannot be captured, they will not take food from humans, they have their own purposes.

Alderman cannot shake the feeling that she has a particular connection to the creatures. Or is she just succumbing to mimmoth psychosis ? As the impact of the mimmoths increases, she is pulled into the cross currents of conspiracy theories and global power struggles. Have her deeply personal forms of mourning lent recent events a surreal air, or is our reality changing drastically and irrevocably?

From the award-winning author of the international bestseller, The Power, The Strangers is a thrillingly original and devastatingly moving novel that blurs the lines between fiction and reality, inviting us to reconsider what it means to be human. It s like nothing you ll have read before.