Happening og hvordan verden i hendes

og hvordan verden i hendes levetid er blevet udfordret af opbrud

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

Ingen af de to kvinder passer ind

en aldrende enke

længsel og smerte

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