Tomorrow Perhaps the Future
- Author Sarah Watling
- Narrator Sarah Watling
- Publisher Random House
- Publish Date 1 January 1970
- Run Time 11 hours and 30 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biography and non-fiction prose, Biography: historical, political and military, Civil wars, Gender studies: women and girls, History, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Social and cultural history, Society and Social Sciences.
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What to expect
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In our age of political divisions, this portrait of the women outsiders who took part in the Spanish Civil War asks questions of solidarity and resistance.
In the 1930s, women and men from across the world made their way to Spain to be part of what they saw as a historic fight for freedom from fascism. Tomorrow Perhaps the Future follows extraordinary outsiders who were determined to live out their lives with courage and conviction.
Sarah Watling weaves together the experiences of a host of writers and activists, including Nancy Cunard, Martha Gellhorn, Jessica Mitford and Virginia Woolf, and searches out the stories of the photographer Gerda Taro and the Harlem nurse Salaria Kea. Throughout, she explores solidarity, art and resistance, finding answers that are as vital today as they were almost a century ago.
'Glorious... so beautifully rendered, so powerful'
ANNA FUNDER, author of Wifedom
‘A fascinating study’
OBSERVER
‘Engrossing and impressive’
NEW STATESMAN
* A NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR *
©2023 Sarah Watling (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
Glorious… The stories are so beautifully rendered, so powerful
A fascinating study… Watling’s protagonists are flawed but brave, battling fascism with guts.
In her engrossing and impressive book, Sarah Watling looks at some of those women who went to war, not just to fight fascism or scratch the itch of adventure but also to show what women could do.
Provocative, compelling narratives of women on the front lines of fighting fascism… A powerful, moving cautionary tale for today.
Watling’s study marks her determination to write women into the history books… This is a serious, scholarly work, which also brings her group of writers, poets and activists vividly to life.
A brilliant, impassioned, and much-needed tribute to the women who used their art to fight fascism… Extraordinary and captivating.
Watling’s narrative, inserting vivid glimpses of the conflict to situate her shuffling of a deck of characters who themselves embodied complex and evolving ideas, is expertly balanced.
Fascinating… Sarah Watling brings alive with great vividness a small cast of disparate characters who travelled to Spain during the Civil War… Watling brings all these passionate characters together with great aplomb.
Watling deploys a wealth of firsthand testimony and archival materials, not in service of a conventional work of history but in an extended consideration of contemporary concerns.
In her exhilarating book, Sarah Watling follows a handful of brilliant intellectuals as they wrestle with the nature of duty in a morally complicated world.
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