Happening da den udkom i Frankrig

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Happening da den udkom i FrankrigIn 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