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Indlæser... The Power: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION (udgave 2017)af Naomi Alderman (Forfatter)
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I was not really enjoying this until it got to the epilogue, which kinda blew my mind. ( ) I love the premise of this book—5 stars for the idea. I don’t love the execution. The way the author jumps around between characters leaves something to be desired; I feel this could’ve been done in a way that still leaves the reader invested in the outcome for each individual, but it didn’t happen for me. Also, personal preference, the violence and SA in particular turned the story sour pretty quickly. I get it as a plot device, but it was a lot.
Alderman [...] imagines our present moment — with our history, our wars, our gender politics — complicated by the sudden widespread manifestation of “electrostatic power” in women. Young girls wake up one morning with the ability to generate powerful electric shocks from their bodies, having developed specialized muscles — called “skeins” — at their collarbones, which they can flex to deliver anything from mild stings to lethal jolts of electricity. The power varies in its intensity but is almost uniform in its distribution to anyone with two X chromosomes, and women vary in their capacity to control and direct it, but the result is still a vast, systemic upheaval of gender dynamics across the globe. 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. The novel is constructed as a big, brash, page-turning, drug-running, globetrotting thriller, one in which people say things such as: “It’s only you I’ve blimmin come to find, isn’t it?” and “You wanna stand with me? Or you wanna stand against me?” But it’s also endlessly nuanced and thought-provoking, combining elegantly efficient prose with beautiful meditations on the metaphysics of power, possibility and change. Tilhører ForlagsserienHæderspriserDistinktionerNotable Lists
En kraft er vågnet i verdens teenagepiger; en evne til at give stærke elektriske stød. Langsomt vendes magtbalancen mellem kønnene på hovedet, og det der starter forsigtigt, bliver startskuddet til en verdensomspændende revolution. Men skaber de nye kvindelige magthavere et bedre samfund, eller lader de sig korrumpere af den nyvundne magt?. Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. |
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