Annie Ernaux: Happening - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE [2022] paperback Condition:Very Good Anna uncovers some startling secrets

Anna uncovers some startling secrets from her mother's past

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Annie Ernaux: Happening - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE [2022] paperback Condition:Very Good Anna uncovers some startling secretsIn 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