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 ...
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Ernaux, Annie
E-Book, 80 S.
Sprache: Englisch
Fitzcarraldo Editions (2019)
ISBN-13: 978-1-910695-84-5
Titelnr.: 96662589