Happening

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Annie Ernaux

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WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "Happening recounts what it was like to be a young woman whose life changed - and world ominously narrowed - in 1963 with an unwanted pregnancy. . . . It feels urgently of the moment." --The New York Times 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. Now an award-winning film by Audrey Diwan Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival

Author Biography:

Born in 1940, ANNIE ERNAUXgrew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught high school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at theCentre National d'Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particularA Man's PlaceandA Woman's Story, have become contemporary classics in France. Ernaux won the prestigiousPrix RenaudotforA Man's Placewhen it was first published in French in 1984, and the English edition became a New York Times Notable Book.Other New York Times Notable Books includeSimple PassionandA Woman's Story,which was also aLos Angeles TimesBook Prize Finalist. Ernaux's mostrecent work,The Years, has received the Fran oise-Mauriac Prize of the French Academy, the Marguerite Duras Prize, the Strega European Prize, the French Language Prize, and the Telegramme Readers Prize. The English edition, translatedby Alison L. Strayer, wonthe 31st Annual French-American Translation Prize for non-fiction and is shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. Her new book,Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman,will be out from Seven Stories in 2020.

Release date Australia

May 14th, 2019

Author

Annie Ernaux

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Translated by Tanya Leslie

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Dimensions

138x209x9

ISBN-13

9781609809485

Product ID

28974457

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