{"product_id":"the-beginning-comes-after-the-end-notes-on-a-world-of-change-9781803513300","title":"The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'An old world is dying; a new world is being born; now is the time of monsters' Antonio Gramschi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSolnit maps the extraordinary revolution of ideas and rights that we've experienced over the last fifty years, which has profoundly changed our world.  In recognising the interdependent and symbiotic relationships in nature and among humans, this revolution is beginning to overturn capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy and the human domination of nature - despite the best efforts of the old world to fight back. From one of the most significant thinkers of our day, \u003ci\u003eThe Beginning Comes After the End\u003c\/i\u003e is a culmination of years of activism and offers a unique perspective on our politics and our humanity, to give hope in difficult times and to urgently remind us that the power to change the world is within our reach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781803513300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 23 Jun 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Granta Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x12.9(L)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eREBECCA SOLNIT is the author of more than twenty books, including \u003ci\u003eOrwell's Roses, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was shortlisted for the 2022 Orwell Prize for Political Writing,\u003ci\u003e Recollections of My Non-Existence\u003c\/i\u003e, which was longlisted for the 2021 Orwell Prize for Political Writing and shortlisted for the 2021 James Tait Black Award, \u003ci\u003eThe Faraway Nearby\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWanderlust\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Field Guide to Getting Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRiver of Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Paradise Built in Hell\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eMen Explain Things to Me \u003c\/i\u003eand many essays on feminism, activism, social change, hope, and the climate crisis, and writes regularly for the \u003ci\u003eGuardian.\u003c\/i\u003e She lives in San Francisco.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003eThe optimism of this book arrives like a breath of fresh air... Solnit is adamant that positive change - social, political, climate - is not only a possibility but inevitable * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eRebecca Solnit reminds us the power to make change is within our reach * New Scientist *\u003cbr\u003eIt would be easy to think we inhabit a global-digital age of despair... Think again, says Rebecca Solnit... In nine deft chapters, she pushes back on the current political gloom, setting it against the achievements made since the 1960s in decolonisation, environmentalism and gender equality, as well as within her own experience of US civil, labour, LGBT+ and indigenous rights * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eBeautiful and inspiring: this book gives us the courage to face change, and to make it -- George Monbiot\u003cbr\u003eA powerful meditation on transformation in turbulent times... Solnit argues that the current turmoil signals the dying throes of patriarchy and colonialism... A rallying call for all those who yearn for a just, sustainable and flourishing society * Conversation *\u003cbr\u003eTimely... As a deliberate exercise in reframing - as an open-ended invitation to consciously adopt new paradigms - The Beginning Comes After the End is very effective. Solnit is wise to focus on the nonlinear, and sometimes almost entirely invisible ways that change happens * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most important thinkers of our times... [Solnit] asks the reader to act without guarantees, to move without knowing how the story ends. Certainty, she argues, belongs to the status quo but justice lives in the unknown * Buzz Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eA rousing call urging its readers to perceive the current moment as one of dramatic, hopeful change - infused with Solnit's characteristic clarity.... As she sees it, despair is a luxury, and surrendering is a form of breaking solidarity, at odds with the theme of interconnection that runs throughout The Beginning Comes After the End * Resurgence \u0026amp; Ecologist *\u003cbr\u003eExhilarating, expansive, and galvanising thinking... The Beginning Comes After the End invites the reader to witness this change, shoulder to shoulder with one of the great thinkers of our age, and to share in the collective purpose and exhilaration. In that way, and in so many others, the revolution has already begun * Writers Mosaic *","brand":"Rebecca Solnit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48880271589593,"sku":"9781803513300","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9781803513300.jpg?v=1783000273","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/the-beginning-comes-after-the-end-notes-on-a-world-of-change-9781803513300","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}