This has everything to do with Naomi Alderman’s fourth novel, “The Power.”Īlderman (who also created the popular apps “Zombies, Run!” and “The Walk,” and in 2013 was among Granta’s 20 best young British novelists) imagines our present moment - with our history, our wars, our gender politics - complicated by the sudden widespread manifestation of “electrostatic power” in women. It’s difficult to say, at a glance, whether one is a translation of the other, or whether they are simply two statements, separate but related, written in stone, shedding different lights on the women they commemorate. In English, it reads to honor and to grieve all women abused and murdered by men. In French, it says à la mémoire de toutes les femmes qui ont subi jusqu’à la mort la violence des hommes.
As with most monuments in Canada’s capital, its inscription is bilingual, and meaning exists in a tense tangle between translations. THERE IS A MONUMENT in Ottawa’s Minto Park dedicated to the memory of women killed by men. (This book was selected as one of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2017.
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