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Women's Prize for Fiction
Description: The Women's Prize for Fiction is awarded annually to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English. (Formerly known as the Orange Prize) #award
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The Power
by Naomi AldermanWhat would happen if women suddenly possessed a fierce new power?
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.
WINNER OF THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • From the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—a haunting story of love and war. • Recipient of the Women&’s Prize for Fiction &“Winner of Winners&” award.With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor full of revolutionary zeal; Olanna, the professor&’s beautiful young mistress who has abandoned her life in Lagos for a dusty town and her lover&’s charm; and Richard, a shy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna&’s willful twin sister Kainene. Half of a Yellow Sun is a tremendously evocative novel of the promise, hope, and disappointment of the Biafran war.