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 h Happening - Annie Ernaux od authora Annie Ernaux a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
| Autor |
Annie Ernaux |
| Jazyk |
anglický |
| Počet stran |
80 |
| Rok vydání |
2022 |
| Nakladatelství |
Fitzcarraldo Editions |
