CADA AN O VIVIDO Y CADA ARRUGA CUENTAN MI HISTORIA.

Isabel Allende bucea en su memoria y nos ofrece un emocionante libro sobre su relacion 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 mia la gran autora chilena nos invita a acompanarla en este viaje personal y emocional donde repasa su vinculacion con el feminismo desde la infancia hasta hoy. Recuerda a algunas mujeres imprescindibles en su vida, como sus anoradas Panchita, Paula o la agente Carmen Balcells; a escritoras relevantes como Virginia Woolf o Margaret Atwood; a jovenes artistas que aglutinan la rebeldia de su generacion o, entre otras muchas, a esas mujeres anonimas 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 acompanado a lo largo de su vida: sus mujeres del alma.

Finalmente, reflexiona tambien sobre el movimiento #MeToo -que apoya y celebra-, sobre las recientes revueltas sociales en su pais de origen y, como no, sobre la nueva situacion que globalmente estamos viviendo con la pandemia. Todo ello sin perder esa inconfundible pasion por la vida y por insistir en que, mas alla de la edad, siempre hay tiempo para el amor.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A
passionate and inspiring meditation on what it means to be a woman, from one
of 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 not
exaggerating, begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her
mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children
without resources or voice. Isabel became a fierce and defiant
little girl, determined to fight for the life her mother couldn’t have. As a
young woman coming of age in the late 1960’s, she rode the first wave of
feminism. Among a tribe of like-minded female journalists, she for the first
time felt comfortable in her own skin, as they wrote with a knife
between their teeth about women’s issues. She has seen what has been
accomplished by the feminist movement in the course of her lifetime. And over
the course of three passionate marriages, she has learned how to grow as a
woman while having a partner, when to step away, and the rewards of embracing
one’s sexuality.

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