The novel is influenced by Alderman’s time working in a mentorship program with Canadian author Margaret Atwood.
She also published The Liars’ Gospel and The Lessons before The Power. It tells the story of a North London rabbi’s bisexual daughter, Ronit Krushka, and her life in New York. It is thought to have been inspired by the author’s orthodox Jewish community from her youth. Before its publication, she had written four books, all of which were outside the dystopian genre.īut, her interest in female narratives was clear within her first novel, Disobedience, published in 2006. Naomi Alderman’s The Power was the novel that made her a household name, partially among those interested in the latest dystopian fiction. Climax: Allie calling on the women of the world to start a global war.Setting: London, Alabama, New England, Nigeria, and Bessapara.Genre: Novel / Speculative Fiction / Science Fiction.The novel takes place across multiple settings, from Alabama to Moldova (the latter is remade into Bessapara), and features a wide variety of female characters, many of whom rise up from lives marred by abuse and oppression. This immediately shifts the power dynamic, placing women in a position of dominance never seen throughout human history. The Power envisions a world in which all women worldwide are suddenly capable of wielding incredible Power at their fingertips.
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