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.
Happening – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
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Taal:
Engels
Formaat:
Een zoon van Amerika
Intervals
A Ghost in the Throat
1914—Goodbye to All That : Writers on the Conflict Between Life and Art
Three Mothers : How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
Tattoos on the Heart : The Power of Boundless Compassion
My Cousin Maria Schneider : A Memoir
Waarom je kinderboeken moet lezen, zelfs al ben je oud en wijs
The Life of the Author: Maya Angelou
Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin
A Different Kind of Power : Read by the author, Jacinda Ardern
Het Achterhuis
De jaren
Een vrouw
De plek
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Alleen maar hartstocht
I Will Write To Avenge My People - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE : The Nobel Lecture
De schaamte
Meisjesherinneringen
Het voorval
A Man's Place – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A Girl's Story – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A Frozen Woman