Memories of my nonexistence

The most anticipated book by the great feminist thinker, author of Men Explain Things to Me: an illuminating memoir about her emotional and social education.

ONE OF THE 100 BOOKS TO READ ACCORDING TO TIME

"For Solnit, hope is not a guarantee for tomorrow, but a trigger for today's action."
John Berger

In 1981, a very young Rebecca Solnit moved into her first apartment in a marginalized neighborhood of San Francisco. She would spend the next twenty-five years there, fighting fierce battles to carry out the difficult task of building her identity and speaking out in a society that assaults and silences women.
Recollections of My Nonexistence, her latest book and her first memoir, acclaimed by critics and readers in the United States, marks a milestone and "gives us the key to understanding all her work" (The New York Times). These pages narrate the exciting coming-of-age story of "a unique writer, whose hopeful voice is, now more than ever, essential" (The Guardian): "the voice of resistance" (The New York Times Magazine).

Praise for the book...
"An undeniable voice of feminism, the environment, and art, the American essayist, one of the most reputable in the Anglo-Saxon world, [...] displays her usual particular prose style that refracts history, politics, personal experience, and criticism through a poetic lens, and delves into the girl she once was to show a brighter present in which shadows to be dispelled still lurk."
Andrés Seoane, El Cultural

"Rebecca Solnit, a dynamiter. She discovered that vocal cords were for speaking. An evolutionary advantage to which she added another: intelligence. The world is not for sucking up. It exists for the truth to be heard. And she does so [with] her memoirs, pages as sincere as a brick."
Javier Ors, La Razón

"One of the most influential thinkers of our time and exists more than ever. [...] Let's toast to those forces. The ones we so desperately need to take up the baton she offers us: Solnit asks women, without telling us, to do better than men; she asks us to use her experience in power to do something different with it."
Marta Nebot, Público

"It would be a mistake to approach Recollections of My Nonexistence as a typical memoir: [Solnit] makes the personal political in a natural, direct, and insistent way; and the same happens in reverse: the pages of this autobiography intentionally offer a framework for explaining reality, almost an instruction manual aimed at young people on how to navigate the world."
Berta Gómez, El Diario

"After thousands of pages written about others, and for others, in Recollections of My Nonexistence, she finally becomes the protagonist of her own story, which she tells without betraying herself, in honor of her truth."
Inés Martín Rodrigo, ABC