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.
Les armoires vides
Annie Ernaux
audiobookPassion simple
Annie Ernaux
audiobookUne femme
Annie Ernaux
audiobookLa place
Annie Ernaux
audiobookMémoire de fille
Annie Ernaux
audiobookL'autre fille : Suivi d'un entretien avec l'auteur
Annie Ernaux
audiobookWriting, the Other Life
Annie Ernaux
audiobookDen andra dottern
Annie Ernaux
bookNuori mies
Annie Ernaux
audiobookbookTapaus
Annie Ernaux
audiobookbookDiario del afuera
Annie Ernaux
bookThe Use of Photography
Annie Ernaux
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