| International Standard Book Number |
0316594776
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780316594776
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780316612630
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| International Standard Book Number |
0316612634
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| Personal Name |
Alderman, Naomi, author.
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| Title Statement |
The strangers / Naomi Alderman.
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| Edition Statement |
First North American edition.
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| Imprint |
New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
277 pages ; 22 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
They came from nowhere, and now they are everywhere. A few months after her mother dies, the novelist Naomi Alderman sets up a wildlife camera in the back garden of her parents' home. It captures the first image of a strange new animal. Low to the ground, about the size of a badger, flat face, long, trunk-like nose. Suddenly these "mimmoths" are as common as foxes or dogs. And no one knows where they've come from. As Alderman negotiates the territory of grief - a place with its own logic and rhythms - the mimmoths spread. From the UK east and west, to the United States, to Russia, to India. They seem harmless, but oddly intelligent. They cannot be captured, they will not take food from humans, they have their own purposes. Alderman cannot shake the feeling that she has a particular connection to the creatures. Or is she just succumbing to 'mimmoth psychosis'? As the impact of the mimmoths increases, she is pulled into the cross currents of conspiracy theories and global power struggles. Have her deeply personal forms of mourning lent recent events a surreal air, or is our reality changing drastically and irrevocably? From the award-winning author of the international bestseller, The Power, The Strangers is a thrillingly original and devastatingly moving novel that blurs the lines between fiction and reality, inviting us to reconsider what it means to be human. It's like nothing you'll have read before.
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| Target Audience Note |
A Libraria.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Mothers Death Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Grief Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Human-animal relationships Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Conspiracy theories Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fiction/Family Life - General.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fiction/Science Fiction - Alien Contact.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fiction/Literary.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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