01242    a2200217   450000100060000000300090000600500170001500800410003202000260007304000130009904100080011208200190012010000260013924500590016526000440022430000290026850400510029752006250034865000210097370000300099411427IN-BhIIT20260408154548.0260318b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a 9781609809485 (pbk.)  aIN-BhIIT  aeng  a843.914bERN/H  aErnaux, AnnieeAuthor  aHappening /cAnnie Ernaux; translated by Tanya Leslie.  aNew York :bSeven Stories Press,c2022.  a95 p. :bill. ;c19 cm.   aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  an 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 the child. 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 ended up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly died.
In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience.  aFiction (French)  aLeslie, TanyaeTranslator