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Lädt ... The Power (Original 2018; 2017. Auflage)von Naomi Alderman (Autor)
Werk-InformationenDie Gabe von Naomi Alderman (2018)
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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. ( ) I didn’t expect to enjoy this book, although ‘enjoy’ doesn’t feel like the right word. This is a dystopian look to a future in which women develop the ability to emit an electrical discharge, turning almost all women into a walking weapon. The resulting upheaval in societies and cultures all over the world plunge the planet into wars on both the small and large scale. There’s too much in this novel to go into without writing an essay. The meaning may well be different to different people, based on their own biased views. To me, it screams that there is no better or worse, just the corruption of power, and we should all be equal. But, sadly, though likely accurately, this shows that equality also includes all human traits, both good and bad. The book shows what people are capable of, questioning gender equality on a grand scale. It’s thought-provoking, though touches only lightly on a subject that has greater depth than you’ll find here. Some might feel it’s a feminist novel, but it speaks more eloquently of the failures in human nature. Creative and possibly provocative for some.
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. Gehört zu VerlagsreihenAuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
Wie würde eine Welt aussehen, in der die Frauen das stärkere Geschlecht wären? Wäre die Welt dann besser oder eher schlechter? Oder wirkt sich Macht auf jedes Geschlecht gleich aus? N. Alderman spielt in ihrem neuen Roman dieses Gedankenmodell durch. Im Roman entdecken Mädchen im Teenageralter, dass sie in der Lage sind, Stromstöe︢ auszusenden. Diese "Gabe" verleiht ihnen Macht, können sie doch andere ganz leicht verletzen oder auch töten. Aus der Perspektive verschiedener, hauptsächlich weiblicher Figuren beschreibt die Autorin 10 Jahre, in denen sich die Gesellschaft verändert. Der Spiess wird umgedreht, alle Ungerechtigkeiten, mit denen Frauen zu kämpfen haben, betreffen nun die Männer. Dabei wird sehr schön vorgeführt, wie sehr Frauen aktuell noch benachteiligt werden. Auch wenn der mit dem Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction ausgezeichnete Roman, teils etwas zu plakativ geraten, inhaltlich nicht ganz zu überzeugen vermag, trifft er den Nerv der Zeit und wird angesichts der MeToo-Bewegung sicher auf lebhaftes Interesse bei Leserinnen, Lesern und Feuilleton stossen Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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