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Image of Happening - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Happening - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie

From Shelf: Women in Translation Celebration!

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 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.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
80
Publisher:
Fitzcarraldo Editions
ISBN:
9781910695838
Published Date:
13/2/2019
Dimensions:
197mm x 125mm
Category:
Literary essays

RRP: £9.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9781910695838

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