Happening og hvordan verden i hendes

og hvordan verden i hendes levetid er blevet udfordret af opbrud

og hendes debutroman Ø blev tildelt den internationale pris MARetica

begær og alt det besværlige og vidunderlige ved at skabe et nyt fælles liv

This is a book of literary activism – an antidote to the shallow thinking that typifies our age

ser en lysstråle i vandet under en bro

Happening og hvordan verden i hendesIn 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