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Narrado por:
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Adjoa Andoh
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Naomi Alderman
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.
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"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)
"Captivating, fierce, and unsettling...I was riveted by every page. Alderman's prose is immersive and, well, electric." (New York Times Book Review)
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"I love a truly post-apocalyptic novel, in which we've moved far past the point of catastrophe and destruction. Society has been rebuilt, and its members are left puzzling over the artifacts salvaged from our current civilization, trying to piece together the facts of our world. In Alderman's version, the patriarchy has been flipped on its head, with women the dominant gender, and Alderman paints a vivid picture of just what extreme circumstances it took to get us there. (Spoiler alert: it's not pretty.)"
—Emily C., Audible Editor
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This narrator reaches that level of badness. This was all very frustrating because the story is brilliant; I was engrossed. But my schedule makes audiobooks convenient so I stuck with it and shifted to reading whenever I could. Even Tunde's Nigerian accent seemed cartoonish. I only know one Nigerian, a colleague, so I concede on that point I could be wrong.
And don't get me started on the absurd Eastern European accents. Every sentence is delivered one of two ways: An over-the-top villainous goon or a simple-minded ingenue. The Jocelyn character sounds like a baby Muppet. Incredible.
As for the story itself, it's brilliant. This is speculative fiction at its best. Alderman posits the appearance of a phenomenon with the potential to disrupt society utterly and then she follows one possible path of development. I've seen reviews that say it wouldn't happen that way or it's too implausible or whatever.
Every time you start thinking that way just remind yourself of every prediction made since the Industrial Revolution about war, technology, society or culture. How many of those have been right?
"We'll only ever need a handful of computers and the government will own most of them."
"They'll greet us like saviors."
"There are not 300,000 Chinese soldiers just over the border waiting to sweep into North Korea during the Korean War." "Black soldiers aren't smart enough to fight in armored formations (General Patton)."
"Austerity policies are good for the economy and lead to broad prosperity."
"Women don't have the killer instinct to be good fighter pilots."
And so on.
Alderman's story is one possible path. Human history pretty convincingly tells us there are maybe a hundred different ways the appearance of The Power could play out.
Read it. Argue with it in your mind. Or simply enjoy it. But don't deprive yourself of its quality.
Un-listenable accents
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My first review in 4 years!
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Fantastic and Empowering
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The timing couldn’t be better
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A must read for anyone struggling with the current political climate
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Whoa. Just whoa.
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Embarrassing performance
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It was not a pleasant book to experience, was very cynical, and disturbing. Despite all of that, I felt that it was worth reading, if you can see the big picture and are ready to be be shown a cynical view of humanity full of shallowness and depravity, which may or may not be what you already think.
Thought provoking but not enjoyable
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Thought provoking
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The book lends itself well to audiobook format however some of the accents the narrator uses come across as a little comical and at times take the reader out of the seriousness of the moment. This is especially true for the characters from “Besapara”.
An exciting concept some blind spots in the execution
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