Happening, Annie Ernaux
Happening, Annie Ernaux
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Happening

Author: Annie Ernaux

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 1 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/10/2019


Synopsis

In 1963, Annie Ernaux, twenty-three 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.

About Annie Ernaux

Annie Ernaux is an award-winning, bestselling French author who began her career writing fiction and later turned to autobiographies. Her novels have won many notable awards and recognitions, including the 2008 Marguerite Duras Prize, three New York Times Notable Books, and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998. She is one of the seven founding members of Seven Stories Press.

About Tavia Gilbert

Tavia Gilbert is an acclaimed producer, narrator, writer, and stage and film actor. An Audie and Earphones award winner, she has been nominated for nearly every possible award and has been named an Audiobook Narrator of the Year by Booklist Magazine. Part of the Grammy-nominated full-cast recording of Charlotte’s Web, she has narrated more than 700 solo, multi-cast, and full-cast titles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Federico on March 26, 2024

Not for me. France, 1963. Annie Duchesne, university student, 23, suddenly realizes she’s pregnant. What follows is a desperate quest for a place and someone to perform an abortion, in a country where it’s illegal, and the chances of infection and other health risks very high. A harrowing little m......more

Goodreads review by julieta on December 13, 2020

Buenísimo. Con mucha sencillez cuenta un aborto clandestino que tuvo cuando era estudiante. Es un tema super difícil de tratar, pero es buenísimo como lo describe, no se corta con nada. Para ser leído y discutido, ya que siendo el aborto todavía ilegal en tantos países de Latinoamérica, es algo enmu......more

Goodreads review by s.penkevich on December 02, 2024

Memory becomes a literary playground in the works of Nobel Prize winning author Annie Ernaux, who’s succinct and poetically precise prose ‘helps to convey that precise moment when I feel I have bonded with my former life, the one that has gone for ever,’ and navigate the reader through intensely tac......more

Goodreads review by El Librero de Valentina on January 28, 2023

Un libro que pone sobre la mesa uno de los temas más controvertidos de la sociedad: el aborto.......more

Goodreads review by Josu on January 12, 2024

Una novela corta sobre el trauma y la despersonalización de un evento cubierto de capas. El acontecimiento que nos narra Annie es duro, complicado y oscuro, pero al mismo tiempo, nace de algo que parece sencillo a ojos actuales. En una época donde el aborto era un crimen terrible e ilegal, Annie nos......more