Memories of the Future

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED

'Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri
Hustvedt' Washington Post

'A 21st-century Virginia Woolf' Literary Review

A provocative, wildly funny, intellectually rigorous and engrossing novel,
punctuated by Siri Hustvedt's own illustrations - a tour de force by one of
America's most acclaimed and beloved writers.

Fresh from Minnesota and hungry for all New York has to offer, twenty-three-
year-old S.H. embarks on a year that proves both exhilarating and frightening
- from bruising encounters with men to the increasingly ominous monologues of
the woman next door.

Forty years on, those pivotal months come back to vibrant life when S.H.
discovers the notebook in which she recorded her adventures alongside drafts
of a novel. Measuring what she remembers against what she wrote, she regards
her younger self with curiosity and often amusement. Anger too, for how much
has really changed in a world where the female presidential candidate is
called an abomination?

'Provocative and mysterious . . . comic and sensual' Daily Mail


PRAISE FOR SIRI HUSTVEDT:

'Hustvedt is that rare artist, a writer of high intelligence, profound
sensuality and a less easily definable capacity for which the only word I can
find is wisdom' Salman Rushdie

'One of our finest novelists' Oliver Sacks

'Reading a Hustvedt novel is like consuming the best of David Lynch' Financial
Times