Happening - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE (Paperback)

In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist, and ends up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly dies. In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience.

General

Imprint:	Fitzcarraldo Editions
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2019
First published:	2000
Authors:	Annie Ernaux
Translators:	Tanya Leslie
Dimensions:	197 x 128 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	80
ISBN-13:	978-1-910695-83-8
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	French
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	1-910695-83-1
Barcode:	9781910695838

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