Mujeres del alma ma / The Soul of a Woman: Sobre el amor impaciente, la vida larga y las brujas buenas-Fast Shipping

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CADA AÑO VIVIDO Y CADA ARRUGA CUENTAN MI HISTORIA.

Isabel Allende bucea en su memoria y nos ofrece un emocionante libro sobre su relación con el feminismo y el hecho de ser mujer, al tiempo que reivindica que la vida adulta hay que vivirla, sentirla y gozarla con plena intensidad.

En Mujeres del alma mía la gran autora chilena nos invita a acompañarla en este viaje personal y emocional donde repasa su vinculación con el feminismo desde la infancia hasta hoy. Recuerda a algunas mujeres imprescindibles en su vida, como sus añoradas Panchita, Paula o la agente Carmen Balcells; a escritoras relevantes como Virginia Woolf o Margaret Atwood; a jóvenes artistas que aglutinan la rebeldía de su generación o, entre otras muchas, a esas mujeres anónimas que han sufrido la violencia y que llenas de dignidad y coraje se levantan y avanzan… Ellas son las que tanto le inspiran y tanto le han acompañado a lo largo de su vida: sus mujeres del alma.

Finalmente, reflexiona también sobre el movimiento #MeToo —que apoya y celebra—, sobre las recientes revueltas sociales en su país de origen y, cómo no, sobre la nueva situación que globalmente estamos viviendo con la pandemia. Todo ello sin perder esa inconfundible pasión por la vida y por insistir en que, más allá́ de la edad, siempre hay tiempo para el amor.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Apassionate and inspiring meditation on what it means to be a woman, from oneof the leading voices in Latin American literature, Isabel Allende.

English edition: THE SOUL OF A WOMAN, by Isabel Allende [Ballantine Books,3/2/2021]

“When I say that I was feminist in kindergarten, I am notexaggerating,” begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched hermother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small childrenwithout “resources or voice.” Isabel became a fierce and defiantlittle girl, determined to fight for the life her mother couldn’t have. As ayoung woman coming of age in the late 1960’s, she rode the first wave offeminism. Among a tribe of like-minded female journalists, she for the firsttime felt comfortable in her own skin, as they wrote “with a knifebetween their teeth” about women’s issues. She has seen what has beenaccomplished by the feminist movement in the course of her lifetime. And overthe course of three passionate marriages, she has learned how to grow as awoman while having a partner, when to step away, and the rewards of embracingone’s sexuality.

So, what do women want? To be safe, to be valued, to live in peace, to havetheir own resources, to be connected, to have control over their bodies andlives, and above all, to be loved. On all these fronts, there is much work tobe done, and this book, Allende hopes, will “light the torch of ourdaughters and granddaughters with mine. They will have to live for us, as welived for our mothers, and carry on with the work still left to befinished.”